Horizontal Merger Guidelines

U.S. Department of Justice & Federal Trade Commission. (2010). Horizontal Merger Guidelines.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2010

Link

https://www.justice.gov/atr/horizontal-merger-guidelines-08192010

Cited from

economics_finance

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Economies of Scale
  • The European Commission's and U.S. Department of Justice's Horizontal Merger Guidelines

    This sourceBoth treat merger-enabled efficiencies, including scale economies and minimum-efficient-scale estimates, as central analytic inputs weighed against market-power concerns; supports the inline merger-policy claim. (The 2010 U.S. guidelines were superseded by the 2023 Merger Guidelines, but were the operative reference for the cited claim.)

Domain-specific

• Market power
  • Industrial organization — the canonical product-market home; the Lerner index, Herfindahl-Hirschman concentration, residual-demand estimation, and the Cournot/Bertrand/Stackelberg oligopoly models all operationalize the slope of the firm's residual demand. Antitrust enforcement — Sherman/Clayton, EU Article 102, and merger review keyed to HHI thresholds and diversion ratios, where market definition is the prelude to measuring whether a firm can profitably restrict output

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Mechanisms

• Market-Power Screen
  • The discipline that guards against this is the hypothetical-monopolist test done honestly, with the uncertainty carried forward and the screen re-run as the market moves rather than frozen at the first finding.

    This sourceUses the hypothetical-monopolist test to determine whether a candidate market is sufficiently broad for merger analysis.

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