The 1968 Merger Guidelines: In Praise of Committing to Restraint

Gregory J. Werden ()
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Gregory J. Werden: U.S. Department of Justice

Review of Industrial Organization, 2018, vol. 53, issue 3, No 3, 445-452

Abstract: Abstract The 1968 Merger Guidelines of the U.S. Department of Justice remain a model for competition agencies around the world because they courageously articulated when the Department would exercise its prosecutorial discretion by not challenging a horizontal merger.

Keywords: Antitrust; Guidelines; Mergers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K21 L40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11151-018-9652-x

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