The Federal Trade Commission is expanding its internal program for reviewing past mergers and acquisitions in an effort to further investigate how completed deals impact competition.
The commission has widened the scope of and devoted more resources to its Merger Retrospective Program, an internal section tasked with analyzing the economic effects of a variety of consummated mergers, it said Thursday.
The FTC plans to develop and maintain a website dedicated to the government’s research on past deals, and will issue an annual report detailing lessons learned from retrospective studies.
FTC enforcers also will seek to address antitrust questions that haven’t ...
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