Twin Cities Business Quotes Prof. Cotter on Mergers

A Twin Cities Business article titled “Klobuchar Calls for Investigation into Ticketmaster-Live Nation” discusses the senator’s recent call for the Department of Justice to reopen its antitrust investigation into the 2010 merger of Ticketmaster and LiveNation. The article quotes Professor Tom Cotter, who notes that the agencies’ approach to mergers shifts over time as economists develop newer understandings of the potential competitive effects of industrial combinations, and that the pendulum appears to be shifting back to a less forgiving standard.