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The aim of the nation’s antitrust laws is to promote competition within industries. Economic theory suggests that the greater the number of firms within an industry and the fewer the impediments to firms that would like to enter the industry, the more competitive the industry will be. The behavior of firms within industries may also indicate the extent of competition. For example, price collusion among firms indicates a lack of competition in an industry. Exclusion of new entrants by firms that are already in the industry may also be anticompetitive: it reduces the number of potential competitors.
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Greenberg, W. (1998). Antitrust in the Health Care Sector. In: The Health Care Marketplace. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1668-1_8
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