Is Vertical Integration a Good Idea?

Regulators are moving in the direction that lena con came to prominence as a yal law student with her paper, amazons anti trust problem. Her term in office thus far has been characterized by extraordinary skepticism of growth by merger and vertical integration more generally. She's just announced that the f t c will seek comment on up dated 20 first century merger guide lines. And she's in the midst of suwing facebook to break the company up. This was once a commonplace of anti trust regulation. It's called structural separation. At root, structural sep ation is grounded in the idea that it's nearly impossible to prove cheating or self preferencing so we should just eliminate the incentives for