Staples-Office Depot merger: Regulators may make it too easy A new assessment of the government’s record concludes the trustbusters haven’t always anticipated which mergers will have anticompetitive results. John Kwoka, an economist at Northeastern University who has worked for the FTC and the U.S. Department of Justice, analyzed every postmerger study published in an academic journal for combinations completed between 1976 and 2006 for […]