Mergers and competition How merger transactions impact consumers

With some calling 2015 &#8220the Year of the Merger,&#8221 we saw a whopping 4. 7 trillion in mergers last year, the largest volume in history. Shell and BG Group, Time Warner and Charter Communications, Dell and EMC, Heinz and Kraft, all began consolidating. Despite this ever-growing trend, little attention has been paid to how these. . .