ACM conference Impact Assessment 2016: presentation Balan
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) organised a conference on “Impact Assessment of Interventions of Competition and Consumer Authorities”, to pay tribute to the ten-year anniversary of the ACM’s (former NMa’s) Chief Economist Office. The conference took place in Amsterdam on November 16, 2016.
This document is the presentation of David Balan (FTC) from the session “Health Care”. David Balan discusses a new framework from the FTC to assess potential hospital mergers. This framework assesses competitive and quality effects of the merger. David presents the experiences with this framework, which had a substantial impact to successfully block some hospital mergers.