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You don't need to have a specific interest in the cruise ship industry to benefit from the new Federal Trade Commission study Empirical Analyses of Potential Competitive Effects of a Horizontal Merger: The FTC' s Cruise Ships Mergers Investigation. The 36-page study is available at the above link.

The paper provides an overview of ...

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