Questions
Each answer must be a minimum of 175 words.
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1) What are the differences among horizontal, vertical, and conglomerate mergers? Provide real-world examples of each type of merger. What policy do you think the US should follow toward mergers? Why?
2) what is the "Rule of Reason" in evaluating mergers? What is the "60 Percent Rule"?
3) Class, as indicated by your textbook, the ability of firms to merge vertically used to be restricted, but nowadays the restrictions appear to have been relaxed. This is because vertical mergers can provide certain synergies. Class, what are some of these potential synergies?
Explain and give examples.