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Brian Albrecht

Chief Economist

Brian Albrecht is ICLE's Chief Economist and an assistant professor of economics in the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University

Dirk Auer

Director of Competition Policy

Dirk Auer is director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

Eric Fruits

Senior Scholar

Eric Fruits is a senior scholar at ICLE and an adjunct professor of economics at Portland State University.

Geoffrey A. Manne

President and Founder

Geoffrey A. Manne is president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), a distinguished fellow at Northwestern University’s Center on Law, Business, and Economics, and a visiting professor of law at IE University, Madrid.

ICLE Scholars on ‘Doomsday’ Mergers

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Brian Albrecht, Dirk Auer, Eric Fruits, & Geoffrey A. Manne April 12, 2023
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Conversable Economist – ICLE Scholars Brian Albrecht, Dirk Auer, Eric Fruits, and Geoffrey A. Manne were cited by the Conversable Economist blog in a post about ICLE’s white paper on “doomsday mergers.” You can read full piece here.

There are often substantial controversies over whether a merger should be allowed to happen, but then relatively little follow-up after the event. Of course, if a merger was blocked, then it’s hard to know whether it would have led to good or bad outcomes. But when a controversial merger is allowed, it’s fairly straightforward to see if the negative predictions actually happened.

Brian Albrecht, Dirk Auer, Eric Fruits, and  Geoffrey A. Manne take on this task in “Doomsday Mergers: A Retrospective Study of False Alarms” (International Center for Law and Economics, March 22, 2023). Here’s their summary…

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