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Behavioral Economics and Merger Analysis

 |  April 1, 2010

Alison Oldale, Apr 01, 2010

The papers in this volume by Eliana Garcés, and Matthew Bennett, John Fingleton, Amelia Fletcher, Liz Hurley & David Ruck provide a very clear overview of behavioral economics and its application to competition policy generally. In this note I will comment on some implications of what they have to say for merger analysis.