Market Definition Example: FTC v. Staples

This video provides a brief overview of the role of merger guidelines generally, and the analytical techniques and methods in the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines. While the 2010 Guidelines are no longer actively endors...

In this video, we discuss the market definition and introduce the Hypothetical Monopolist test commonly used to define relevant products and geographic markets.

This video introduces Section 7 of the Clayton Act, which governs the antitrust analysis of horizontal and vertical mergers and acquisitions. We introduce the key elements of the statute, the legal and economic framework...

Economics of merger efficiencies and how the antitrust agencies incorporate efficiencies in their investigations of mergers.

Case study of FTC v. Meta Platforms and what it could mean for potential competition cases going forward.

This video introduces the structural approach to Section 7 analysis exemplified by the Court in Brown Shoe, Co., Inc. v US and later in US v Philadelphia National Bank.

In this video, we discuss the practical significance of the PNB presumption in modern litigation, its strength was invoked, its relationship with the 2020 Merger Guidelines’ non-market share based framework, and sh...

In this video we examine the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in U.S. v. Baker Hughes. We introduce its burden-shifting framework, discuss the various ways a defendant might satisfy its rebuttal burden in a Section...

This video continues our study of the evolution of the structural presumption in US v. General Dynamics. We focus on General Dynamic’s treatment of rebuttal evidence, the link between market definition and competit...

In this video we introduce the “PNB Presumption,” the evolution of the structural presumption set forth in Brown Shoe, and preview the importance of PNB in modern Section 7 litigation.

We explore the basic economics underlying unilateral price effects arising from a horizontal merger. We also introduce the Gross Upward Pricing Pressure Index, or GUPPI, as a diagnostic tool introduced in the Merger Guid...

This video discusses vertical mergers — the distinction between horizontal and vertical mergers, the “why” of vertical mergers, the theories of harm from vertical mergers, the controversy over vertical merger...