The 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines,as Revised in 1997 and 2010

question 51

Multiple Choice

The 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines,as revised in 1997 and 2010:

• A) were issued by the Justice Department to be additional to the FTC's separate guidelines.
• B) require a mechanical application;in order to reduce the previously used analytical framework,which was far too subjective and uncertain.
• C) rejects use of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index.
• D) deals with mergers of powerful buyers and mergers between competing buyers.

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