FTC’s Bureau of Economics to Expand Merger Retrospective Program

The Federal Trade Commissions Bureau of Economics has announced a revamped Merger Retrospective Program, which will expand and formalize the Bureaus retrospective research efforts that have already produced studies analyzing the effects of a range of consummated mergers over the last 35 years.

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https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/09/ftcs-bureau-economics-expand-merger-retrospective-programhttps://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/09/ftcs-bureau-economics-expand-merger-retrospective-program
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
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Airlines, Aviation, Merger simulation, Mergers and acquisitions, Simulation, US Airways, Economics, Merge, Economy
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  • The Federal Trade Commissions Bureau of Economics has announced a revamped Merger Retrospective Program, which will expand and formalize the Bureaus retrospective research efforts that have already produced studies analyzing the effects of a range of consummated mergers over the last 35 years.
  • Merger retrospective analysis seeks to determine, after the fact, whether a merger has affected competition in one or more of the markets impacted by the merger.
  • It can also assess the performance of a pricing pressure index, merger simulation model, or other tools used to predict the effects of a proposed merger.
  • Although the FTCs Merger Retrospective Program has provided many insights over the years that have informed the FTCs enforcement decisions, the Bureau of Economics seeks to expand the program by:

    Some of the new initiatives to the revitalized Merger Retrospective Program include:

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