Antitrust Bulletin articles from September 1993

Antitrust Bulletin archives from September 1993

Advances of the 1992 horizontal merger guidelines in the analysis of competitive effects. (Symposium on New 1992 Merger Guidelines)
September 22, 1993... When viewed from the antitrust perspective, some mergers are considered "bad," while other mergers are considered "good," or at least "not bad." What is it that separates the bad mergers from the rest? What is it that we fear will happen if...

Market delineation under the Merger Guidelines: a tenth anniversary retrospective. (Symposium on New 1992 Merger Guidelines)
September 22, 1993... I. Introduction On June 14, 1982 the U.S. Department of Justice issued new Merger Guidelines(1) outlining its "enforcement policy . . . concerning acquisitions and mergers."(2) The initial reaction to the Guidelines singled out their...

Entry under the Merger Guidelines 1982-1992. (Symposium on New 1992 Merger Guidelines)
September 22, 1993... I. Introduction The 1982 revision of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Merger Guidelines elevated entry to a preeminent position in merger analysis However, the Guidelines failed to completely explain how entry conditions were to be...

Thirty-one merger policy questions still lingering after the 1992 Guidelines. (Symposium on New 1992 Merger Guidelines)
September 22, 1993... The 1992 Merger Guidelines provide a valuable, thoughtful description of the analytical framework applied by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission in evaluating transactions. Necessarily, though, the Guidelines reflect...

The Merger Guidelines: the practitioner's perspective. (Symposium on New 1992 Merger Guidelines)
September 22, 1993... The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) promulgated new Merger Guidelines on April 2, 1992 [hereinafter new Guidelines]. The agencies state that the Guidelines "outline the present...

The DOJ/FTC 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines: a Canadian perspective. (Symposium on New 1992 Merger Guidelines)
September 22, 1993... Introduction This article provides a brief commentary, from a Canadian perspective, of the 1992 Horizontal Merger Guideline(1) (the 1992 Guidelines) issued jointly by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission...

Making sense of mergers. (Symposium on New 1992 Merger Guidelines)
September 22, 1993... I. Introduction The purpose of this article is to raise some issues about how the antitrust community looks at mergers. After spending several years at the FTC and since analyzing the antitrust implications of mergers, and spending...