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Assessing Merger Impacts on Consumer Welfare in a Converging Internet Marketplace
By  |  Aug 15, 2019

By Rob Frieden (Pennsylvania State University) This article identifies substantial flaws in how U.S. government agencies and courts assess merger proposals by ventures operating in the information, communications and entertainment (“ICE”) marketplace. Using current market definitions, consumer impact assessments and economic doctrine, antitrust enforcement agencies may fail to identify the risk of harm to consumers […]

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