2023 Merger Guidelines

Eleanor Fox provides her round-one comments on the draft Merger Guidelines. To read more from the ProMarket Merger Guidelines Symposium, please see here.

Cory S. Capps and Leemore Dafny provide their round-one comments on the draft Merger Guidelines.

Carl Shapiro provides his round-one comments on the draft Merger Guidelines.

Dennis Carlton provides his round-one comments on the draft Merger Guidelines.

Randy Picker provides his round-one comments on the draft Merger Guidelines.

Steven Salop and Jennifer Sturiale provide their round-one comments on the draft Merger Guidelines.

Herbert Hovenkamp provides his round-one comments on the draft Merger Guidelines.

In two rounds, 12 antitrust experts will provide their comments on the draft Merger Guidelines and respond to each other's comments. On July 19, the...

Since 1993 the American enforcers have claimed that they can directly protect firms’ competition to innovate. And the European Commission, which at first acknowledged that it protected competition in Future Markets, markets for products which do not exist yet, later claimed that it too can directly protect firms’ competition to innovate. In their new Revised Merger Guidelines the American enforcers now not only acknowledge that they protect competition in Future Markets, but say that they will do so aggressively. And since the Americans acknowledge that they protect competition in Future Markets the Europeans should do so as well—again.

Eric Posner provides his thoughts on the draft Merger Guidelines.