Shopping for Transparency in Retail Mergers
15 July 2003
Dr. Timothy Daniel
In this article on recent merger activity in the supermarket industry, NERA Senior Vice President Dr. Timothy Daniel argues that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should disclose to the antitrust community the analytic frameworks and empirical methods used to assess competition in retail mergers. Dr. Daniel points out that, in an effort to provide greater transparency regarding its decisions, the FTC has recently adopted the practice of publicly releasing similar information regarding the market factors that have affected the Commission's decisions in other matters. He emphasizes that antitrust practitioners could greatly benefit from receiving more information about appropriate data to compile and analyses to conduct when working with antitrust authorities on retail transactions.
This article was published in Antitrust, Summer 2003, Vol. 16, Number 2.
