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Evaluating Merger Enforcement During The Obama Administration, Jonathan Baker, Carl Shapiro

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

We recently concluded that government merger enforcement statistics "provide clear evidence that the Obama Administration reinvigorated merger enforcement, as it set out to do." Three weeks later, in an article published inthe Stanford Law Review Online, Professor Daniel A. Crane reached the opposite conclusion, claiming that "[t]he merger statistics do not evidence 'reinvigoration' of merger enforcement under Obama."