Skip Navigation

Journal of Competition Law and Economics 2005 1(4):797-802; doi:10.1093/joclec/nhi026
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Church, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© Oxford University Press 2005, all rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

THE CHURCH REPORT'S ANALYSIS OF VERTICAL AND CONGLOMERATE MERGERS: A REPLY TO COOPER, FROEB, O'BRIEN, AND VITA

Jeffrey Church *

I respond to concerns raised by James Cooper, Luke Froeb, Dan O'Brien, and Michael Vita regarding the analysis of vertical and conglomerate mergers contained in my report to the European Commission. I address their arguments that the raising rivals' costs literature does not support an aggressive stance on vertical mergers; that market power is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for a non-horizontal merger to raise antitrust concerns; and that efficiencies intrinsic to a non-horizontal merger should be treated in the second step of the proposed structured rule of reason framework.

* Professor of Economics, University of Calgary. Email: jrchurch{at}ucalgary.ca.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.