Protecting challenges to monopolies
By: David Gonen, Bureau of Competition | Feb 28, 2017 9:11AM
February 2017
To know where you’re going, look at where you’ve been
By: Debbie Feinstein, Bureau of Competition | Feb 23, 2017 4:46PM
Yesterday, I spoke to a group of antitrust practitioners and those involved in healthcare policy at AAI’s Healthcare Roundtable, where I discussed past and present FTC work to promote competition in healthcare markets.
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HSR threshold adjustments and reportability for 2017
By: Premerger Notification Office Staff, Bureau of Competition | Feb 7, 2017 9:31AM
When Congress passed the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, it created minimum dollar thresholds to limit the burden of premerger reporting. In 2000, it amended the HSR statute to require the annual adjustment of these thresholds based on the change in gross national product. As a result, reportability under the Act changes from year to year as the statutory thresholds adjust. The PNO fields many questions about the upcoming adjustments to the HSR thresholds from parties whose transactions may take place around the time of the revisions.
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Looking back (again) at FTC merger remedies
By: Dan Ducore and Naomi Licker, Bureau of Competition | Feb 3, 2017 8:46AM
The newly released Remedy Study is the culmination of nearly two years of effort by FTC staff to look back at Commission merger orders from 2006 through 2012. We looked at 89 merger orders affecting 400 markets, with 79 divestitures to 121 buyers. We evaluated 50 of those orders using a case study method, interviewing nearly 200 businesses in a wide range of industries and collecting sales data from almost that many.
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