Talk:Merger control

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Dr. Pittman has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

Three additional suggestions:

The section on vertical mergers could mention that a common tool used to evaluate the potential competitive harm from a vertical merger (also used to analyze vertical restraints) is the "vertical arithmetic". Two useful references are https://www.frontier-economics.com/documents/2014/04/vertically-challenged-frontier-paper.pdf and http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2404&context=facpub.

The section on coordinated effects in horizontal mergers could cite some of the classic literature on industry characteristics that may facilitate collusion, including George W. Stocking and Myron W. Watkins, Cartels in Action: Case Studies in International Business Diplomacy, Buffalo, New York: William S. Hein & Co., Inc. (1991; repr. from Twentieth Century Fund, 1948) and http://home.uchicago.edu/~vlima/courses/econ201/Stigler.pdf, and then the more recent http://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1781&context=faculty_publications.

The section on unilateral effects in horizontal mergers could usefully cite http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01034173 (discussing the inclusion of unilateral effects in the 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines) and the essential http://www.jstor.org/stable/23075589?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.

We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.

Dr. Pittman has published scholarly research which seems to be relevant to this Wikipedia article:

• Reference : Li, Yan & Pittman, Russell, 2012. "The proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile: Are there unexhausted scale economies in U.S. mobile telephony?," MPRA Paper 39043, University Library of Munich, Germany.

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 14:38, 30 May 2016 (UTC)