Retail grocery mergers in the United States most often have been evaluated by the FTC. Through those investigations and litigations, FTC staff economists and experts have established one of the most detailed and well-understood programs of econometrics for merger evaluation. This program generally focuses on the estimation of measures of substitutability and price competition among proximate grocery store locations. In this article, we review the FTC’s approach to retail grocery merger reviews
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