Managerial Economics & Business Strategy 8th Edition by Michael Baye,Jeff Prince

Exercise 16

You work at a firm on Wall Street that specializes in mergers, and you are the team leader in charge of getting approval for a merger between two major beer manufacturers in the United States. While Table 7-2 in the text indicates that the four-firm concentration ratio for all of the breweries operating in the United States is 90 percent, your team has put together a report suggesting that the merger does not present antitrust concerns even though the two firms each enjoy a 15 percent share of the U.S. market. Provide an outline of your report.
Table 7-2.