feb 14, 1900 - Effectiveness of Antitrust Laws on Mergers

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Antitrust policy has been effective in blocking blatantly anticompetitive mergers.

A horizontal merger is a merger between two competitors that sell similar products in the same geographic market. A vertical merger is a merger between firms at different stages of the production process. A conglomerate merger is a merger that is nor horizontal or vertical; it is the combination of firms in different industries or firms operating in different geographic mergers.

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