For Release the afternoon of Dec. 2,1966 STATEMENT by COMMISSIONER EVERETTE MACINTYRE on CONGLOMERATE MERGERS AND ANTITRUST LAWS Before the PRACTICING LAW INSTITUTE New York,N.Y. December 2, 1966 CONGLOMERATE MERGERS AND ANTITRUST LAWS

Forward: Perspectives on Corporate Mergers and the Antitrust Laws

Economic analysis in health care antitrust.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) has been very active in enforcing antitrust laws in the health care field for the past two decades. The staff has investigated a wide variety of cases covering a broad range of restrictions on competition. These cases can be divided into three basic types of cases in health care: (1) mergers and acquisitions, (2) horizontal restraints cases or ag...

The effects of mergers with dynamic capacity accumulation

rcement agencies often base their assessment of mergers on a model with Article history: The U.S. antitrust law enfo asymmetric costs. However, in many near-homogeneous product industries there is evidence that cost differences are minor and capacity differences seem a more reasonable explanation of firm heterogeneity. Based on simulations from a dynamic model of capacity accumulation, I find t...

Hospital Mergers and Economic Efficiency

Consolidation via merger both from hospital-to-hospital mergers and from hospital acquisitions of physician groups is changing the competitive landscape of the provision of health care delivery in the United States. This Article undertakes a legal and economic examination of a recent Ninth Circuit case examining the hospital acquisition of a physician group. This Article explores the Saint Alph...

Mergers and Government Policy *

It has long been thought that government antitrust policy has an effect on aggregate merger and acquisition activity, but the empirical support for this hypothesis has been weak and inconsistent. This paper uses a new empirical specification and a new dataset on mergers and acquisitions to provide support for this conjecture. Regression analysis shows that government policy has a significant in...