The 2010 Guidelines Regarding Horizontal Mergers

question 64

Multiple Choice

The 2010 guidelines regarding horizontal mergers:

• A) use a single methodology for merger analysis.
• B) are intended to identify harmful mergers while avoiding unnecessary interference with mergers that will not be likely to affect competition.
• C) explain that market definition is a necessary starting point of merger analysis.
• D) reject use of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index in quantifying market concentration.

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