Antitrust Policy toward Horizontal Mergers

Michael Whinston

Chapter 36 in Handbook of Industrial Organization, 2007, vol. 3, pp 2369-2440 from Elsevier

Abstract: Recently there has been a notable increase in interest in antitrust law in much of the world. This chapter discusses antitrust policy toward horizontal mergers, the area of antitrust that has seen some of the most dramatic improvements in both economic tools and the application of economics in enforcement practice. The chapter discusses theoretical considerations, merger laws and enforcement practices, econometric methods for analyzing prospective horizontal mergers, and evidence concerning the ex post effects of actual horizontal mergers.

Keywords: industrial; organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 0-444-82435-9
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