A Size Dominance Index for Market Structure Analysis

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Title:	A Size Dominance Index for Market Structure Analysis
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Language:	English
Subject:	Trade, Import and export controls, Federal Trade Commission (U.S.)
Collections:	Economics Publications Collection, Federal Trade Commission
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Introduction: The value of H, or for that matter, of any usual concentration index increases with any merger; notwithstanding that it is likely that some mergers, far from reducing competition, increase it. That could be the case of the merger of two moderately sized firms in a market dominated by a firm that concentrates most of the output, because of their increased capability to defend themselves from anticompetitive actions carried out by the largest firm.