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Antitrust policy involves a set of policies aimed at promoting competition in markets and thereby attaining allocative efficiency. Toward this end, antitrust policy traditionally encompasses efforts to prevent the formation and maintenance of price-fixing cartel agreements, to inhibit unilateral actions by any seller that would have the consequence of considerably enhancing its market power, and to avert mergers that would result in a significant lessening of competition and expansion of market power.
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VanHoose, D. (2010). The Economics of Banking Antitrust. In: The Industrial Organization of Banking. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02821-2_5
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