Rethinking Merger Analysis

Louis Kaplow

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MIT Press
10 December 2024

Economics

A fundamental economic reconstruction of merger analysis to strengthen our ability to determine mergers' likely effects and improve merger regulation.

A fundamental economic reconstruction of merger analysis to strengthen our ability to determine mergers' likely effects and improve merger regulation.

Why rethink merger analysis? Because methods employed throughout the world violate basic precepts of decision analysis and economics. Fundamental principles are underdeveloped, inhibiting research, policy formulation, and merger review. In Rethinking Merger Analysis, Louis Kaplow undertakes a foundational analysis of the questions central to understanding and regulating horizontal mergers and shows why many conventional practices need to be altered or replaced. On the empirical front, Kaplow offers insights, identifies shortcomings, and proposes extensions of existing research. Altogether, merger review can be greatly improved to better identify harmful mergers and avoid thwarting beneficial ones.

The correct economic analysis of anticompetitive effects conflicts sharply with the reigning market definition paradigm. This protocol is more deeply flawed than appreciated, readily produces large errors, and can result in uncertainty bounds on challenge thresholds of two orders of magnitude. Merger efficiencies are underanalyzed because of the failure to draw on relevant disciplines and pertinent industry expertise. Postmerger entry's role is mischaracterized in merger guidelines, and its direct welfare effects are ignored. Entry induced by the prospect of a subsequent buyout has until recently been disregarded. Proper assessment requires a dynamic framing that accounts for a merger regime's influence on the creation and capabilities of new generations of startups that are central to economic dynamism.

This book eschews advocacy and instead focuses on clear thinking-indeed, rethinking-about how to improve merger policy and assessment.

By: Louis Kaplow
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262049245
ISBN 10: 0262049244
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 10 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Louis Kaplow is Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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