As part of its policy, advocacy, and research work, the 51±¾É« studies organizations and business practices to better understand their potential effect on competition and consumer protection.
The following studies are in progress or have been completed:
Merger Retrospective Program
The 51±¾É«also performs retrospective studies of consummated mergers to understand whether the agency’s threshold for bringing an enforcement action in a merger case has been too permissive, thus allowing too many potentially harmful mergers to go through. A second goal of the program is to assess the performance of tools agency economists use to prospectively predict the effects of proposed mergers.
- Learn more about the Merger Retrospective Program