"This is what we call a conglomerate merger, and antitrust law has never been very effective in handling conglomerate mergers, " said Edward Correia, a professor at Northeastern University Law School.
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The EU authorities have also focused lately on the effect of conglomerate mergers, where companies acquire a large portfolio of related products, though without necessarily dominant shares in any individual market.
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"This is what we call a conglomerate merger, and antitrust law has never been very effective in handling conglomerate mergers, " said Edward Correia, a professor at Northeastern University Law School.
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And the most comprehensive study of conglomerate mergers, performed by F . M . Scherer and David Ravenscraft under the auspices of the Brookings Institution, found that the profitability of acquired companies on average declined.
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They may be product extension mergers, i . e ., mergers between firms that produce different but related products or pure conglomerate mergers, i . e ., mergers between firms operating in entirely different markets.
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Another suspect assertion is that a big merger will result in the new economic math of synergy _ a term that first gained currency during the wave of conglomerate mergers in the 1960s, a business fad that in hindsight appears to have been folly.
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In 1950, he was the lead House sponsor of legislation to strengthen the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914; the bill, written with Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver, became the Celler-Kefauver Act, which closed key regulatory loopholes, empowering the government to prevent conglomerate mergers which could limit competition.
