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标题：Market Definition and Market Power in Competition Analysis: Some Practical Issues
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作者：Patrick Massey
期刊名称：Economic and Social Review
印刷版ISSN：0012-9984
出版年度：2000
卷号：31
期号：4
页码：309-328
出版社：Economic and Social Research Institute
摘要：Market definition plays a key role in competition analysis and has often provedcontroversial. However, it is merely a means to an end, the real issue being to establish whether ornot firms have significant market power, i.e. the power to increase prices. This objective is ratherdifferent to the traditional neo-classical economic view of a market. The introduction of the SSNIPtest in the US Department of Justice 1982 Merger Guidelines resulted in the development of newmethods for defining markets and for measuring market power directly, thus eliminating the needto define the market at all