Antitrust authorities at the federal trade commission

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Antitrust authorities at the Federal Trade Commission are reviewing your company’s recent merger with a rival firm. The FTC is concerned that the merger of the two rival firms in the same market will increase market power. A hearing is scheduled for your company to present arguments that your firm has not increased its market power through the merger. Can you do this? How? What evidence might you bring to the hearing?

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