DG Comp chief economist: rising profits affect merger analysis
Tommaso Valletti at GCR Live IP Brussels 2018
High profit margins indicate high pricing power, so a merger is more likely to harm consumers as profit margins rise over time in a given market, the European Commission’s chief competition economist has said.
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