Recently there has been a notable increase in interest in antitrust law in much of the world. This chapter discusses antitrust policy toward horizontal mergers, the area of antitrust that has seen ...

One significant area of recent research is the concentration thresholds used to evaluate horizontal mergers. A study has shown that focusing solely on the change in market concentration ...

The Tempur Sealy ruling underscores the judiciary’s cautious stance on vertical merger enforcement. The court did not cite the 2023 Merger Guidelines but instead referenced Areeda & Hovenkamp ...

An example of a merger would be that business A and business ... business in either the same or a different area of the market. Horizontal integration occurs when two competitors join through ...