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Supermarket Merger Enforcement

Journal of Public Policy & MarketingPublished 1 April 2001
David A. Balto
Citations32
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score2.52
SNIP1.44

Abstract

Retail mergers are one of the most frequent areas of antitrust enforcement. In particular, the Federal Trade Commission has taken a substantial number of supermarket merger enforcement actions. The author describes some of the important analytical concepts addressed in supermarket merger enforcement. The author identifies the Federal Trade Commission's evolving approach to important issues such as remedy and explains the basis for the Commission's more comprehensive approach to competitive problems in this area.

Keywords

Economics, Econometrics and FinanceBusiness, Management and Accounting