Why We Need to Measure the Effect of Merger Policy and How to Do It

Dennis W. Carlton

NBER Working Paper No. 14719
Issued in February 2009

---- Acknowledgements -----

I thank Thomas Barnett, Richard Gilbert, Ken Heyer, Jeffrey Lien, Gregory Pelnar, Hill Wellford, and Gregory Werden for helpful discussions. This is a revised version of Economic Analysis Group Working Paper 07-15, US department of Justice 2007. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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