Bad divestitures can be worse than unremedied mergers, US FTC economist says
By Ilana Kowarski ( September 16, 2026, 20:31 GMT | Insight) -- Although well-crafted merger antitrust divestitures "can be extremely powerful tools to gain the benefits of a merger while mitigating the anticompetitive effects," other divestitures can "actually make markets worse off than they would have been had the merger just gone through," a top US Federal Trade Commission economist said Wednesday.Although well-crafted merger antitrust divestitures "can be extremely powerful tools to gain the benefits of a merger while mitigating the anticompetitive effects," other divestitures can "actually make markets worse off than they would have been had the merger just gone through," a top US Federal Trade Commission economist said Wednesday....
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