Keep me logged in until I sign out. While the 1984 Guidelines were principally concerned with collusive price-fixing, the 1992 Guidelines were expanded to include coordinated interaction between competing firms. This coordinated interaction incorporates parallel or matching conduct by competitors.
Coordinated behavior can include tacit or express collusion.
The agencies will also determine whether competition is lessened due to unilateral effects such as a firm unilaterally altering its behavior following an acquisition by elevating price and suppressing output. This examination will include an analysis of product differentiation and production capacity. If a merger does not pose a serious threat to competition, it is unlikely to be challenged. The Guidelines recognize certain claimed efficiencies as credible. These include achieving economies of scale, better integration of production facilities, plant specialization, lower transportation costs and similar efficiencies relating to manufacturing, servicing, or distribution operations of the merging firms.