The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines

question 12

Multiple Choice

The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines:

• 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 analytic framework, which was far too subjective and uncertain.
• C)rejects use of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index.
• D)clarify that merger analysis does not use a single methodology.
• E)None of the above.

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