Horizontal Merger Investigation Data, Fiscal Years 1996-2007

摘要

To promote transparency in merger enforcement, Federal Trade Commission staff has reviewed the horizontal merger investigations that the agency conducted during fiscal years 1996-2007 and compiled relevant data for public release. The information presented in the attached tables has been extracted from staff memoranda written at the time of each investigation to advise the Commission regarding its enforcement decisions. The staff has tabulated certain market structure information along with the Commission's decision whether or not to seek relief in the specific markets investigated. In addition, for a subset of these investigations (those with three or fewer markets), the staff also has tabulated the Commission's enforcement decisions based on the presence or absence of hot documents, strong customer complaints, and entry conditions as they were identified during the investigation.