One Successful Defense That Some Firms Have Recently Used to Argue

question 22

Multiple Choice

One successful defense that some firms have recently used to argue that a merger should be allowed because the customers are large and sophisticated is called:

• A) the monopoly-buyer defense
• B) the power-buyer defense
• C) the aggregate-firm defense
• D) the foreign-competition defense
• E) the infant-industry defense

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