According to the Justice Department guidelines, mergers in an industry are seldom challenged if the industry O has a pre-merger HHI less than 1500 would have a post-merger Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) less than 1500 has a post-merger HHI of 10,000 would have a post-merger HHI greater than 2500 has a pre-merger HHI of less than 2500

According to the Justice Department guidelines, mergers in an industry are seldom challenged if the industry O has a pre-merger HHI less than 1500 would have a post-merger Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) less than 1500 has a post-merger HHI of 10,000 would have a post-merger HHI greater than 2500 has a pre-merger HHI of less than 2500

Managerial Economics: Applications, Strategies and Tactics (MindTap Course List)

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Author:James R. McGuigan, R. Charles Moyer, Frederick H.deB. Harris

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Chapter16: Government Regulation

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