International competition observatory / OECD CompStats

United States Merger Control Profile

Compare reported competition-authority resources, enforcement, merger control, and advocacy. Differences in responsibility and reporting limit comparisons across jurisdictions.

Explore 34 OECD-published indicator families across balanced reporting groups, 59 merger-control jurisdictions, and 20 industries. Activity is reported as activity, never as an enforcement-quality score.

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Selected jurisdictionUSA / United StatesAmericas / OECD member / identity, not activity

Notifications: 1,973; 2024 published count
Decisions: 1,934; 2024 published count
Interventions: 15; remedies + prohibitions
Activity ratio: 0.78%; Antitrust Radar derived

USAUnited StatesJoined evidence / 2 / 2 source lanes

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JurisdictionIndicatorStatisticReporting groupYear

Resources / trend

Competition budget per million GDPCompetition budget relative to GDP at purchasing-power parity.

Balanced-panel trend

Total budget / gdp, 2015-2024

2015 EUR per million GDP at PPP / source-preserving view

All reporting jurisdictionsOECDNon-OECDAmericasAsia-PacificEuropeMiddle East and Africa

€1,764All / 202456jurisdictions in this balanced sampleSamples differ by indicator

Canonical merger-control dossier

United States: ten-year activity ledger

Eight OECD-published series at the jurisdiction grain. Miniatures are independently scaled and should not be compared by height across measures.

Notifications1,9732024 / 2015: 1,754 Decisions1,9342024 / 2015: 1,758 Phase One clearances1,9142024 / 2015: 1,707 Phase One remedies02024 / 2015: 2 Phase Two clearances52024 / 2015: 26 Phase Two remedies82024 / 2015: 21 Prohibitions72024 / 2015: 2 Withdrawals122024 / 2015: 3

Antitrust Radar derives the intervention rate only when merger decisions, Phase One remedies, Phase Two remedies, and prohibitions are all published for the same jurisdiction-year. It is an activity ratio, not an OECD score or a measure of enforcement quality.

Published indicator architecture

Five domains, 34 indicator families

Select a measure to reopen the workspace at its published grain. Industry series and jurisdiction series remain distinct from aggregate panels.

Resources

Budget and staff capacity

Budgetaggregate / 2015 EUR Budget / GDPaggregate / 2015 EUR per million GDP at PPP Staffaggregate / staff Staff / populationaggregate / staff per million inhabitants

Cartels

Investigations, decisions, and sanctions

Dominance

Investigations, procedures, and decisions

Dawn raidsaggregate / reported activity count Investigationsaggregate / reported activity count Negotiated proceduresaggregate / reported activity count Settlementsaggregate / reported activity count Commitmentsaggregate / reported activity count Decisionsaggregate / reported activity count Industry decisionsindustry / published decisions Finesaggregate / 2015 EUR Companies finedaggregate / reported activity count

Merger control

Notifications, decisions, and outcomes

Notificationsaggregate / reported activity count Decisionsaggregate / reported activity count Phase One clearancesaggregate / reported activity count Phase One remediesaggregate / reported activity count Phase Two clearancesaggregate / reported activity count Phase Two remediesaggregate / reported activity count Prohibitionsaggregate / reported activity count Withdrawalsaggregate / reported activity count

Advocacy

Market studies concluded

Market studiesaggregate / reported activity count

Interpretation boundary

Activity evidence, with the denominator visible

The observatory preserves sample size, reporting grain, and missingness instead of collapsing unlike series into one score.

What the series establish

Reported authority resources and counts of selected investigations, procedures, decisions, merger outcomes, and market studies.

Balanced panels

Each aggregate indicator uses the jurisdictions that supplied comparable data for every published year in that indicator. Sample size therefore varies by metric, and aggregate series with different samples should not be treated as a single balanced panel.

Publication window

Most aggregate and all jurisdiction series cover 2015-2024. Bid-rigging and industry views begin in 2021.

What they cannot establish

OECD Competition Trends counts describe reported authority resources and activity. They do not measure enforcement quality, deterrence, competitive impact, legal correctness, market concentration, consumer welfare, or a causal effect of enforcement.

Canonical jurisdiction dossiers

Browse all 59 merger-control profiles

Each route carries ten years of published merger activity, exact nulls, reusable data, source custody, and a regulatory cross-link where available.

ALBAlbaniaEurope ARGArgentinaAmericas AUSAustraliaAsia-Pacific AUTAustriaEurope BRBBarbadosAmericas BELBelgiumEurope BRABrazilAmericas BGRBulgariaEurope CANCanadaAmericas CHLChileAmericas TWNChinese TaipeiAsia-Pacific COLColombiaAmericas COMESACOMESARegional authority CRICosta RicaAmericas HRVCroatiaEurope CZECzechiaEurope DNKDenmarkEurope ECUEcuadorAmericas SLVEl SalvadorAmericas ESTEstoniaEurope EUEuropean UnionRegional authority FINFinlandEurope FRAFranceEurope DEUGermanyEurope GRCGreeceEurope HUNHungaryEurope ISLIcelandEurope IDNIndonesiaAsia-Pacific IRLIrelandEurope ISRIsraelMiddle East and Africa ITAItalyEurope JPNJapanAsia-Pacific KENKenyaMiddle East and Africa KORKoreaAsia-Pacific LVALatviaEurope LTULithuaniaEurope MLTMaltaEurope MUSMauritiusMiddle East and Africa MEXMexicoAmericas NLDNetherlandsEurope NZLNew ZealandAsia-Pacific NORNorwayEurope PANPanamaAmericas PRYParaguayAmericas PERPeruAmericas POLPolandEurope PRTPortugalEurope ROURomaniaEurope SAUSaudi ArabiaMiddle East and Africa SGPSingaporeAsia-Pacific SVKSlovak RepublicEurope SVNSloveniaEurope ESPSpainEurope SWESwedenEurope CHESwitzerlandEurope TUNTunisiaMiddle East and Africa TURTürkiyeMiddle East and Africa GBRUnited KingdomEurope USAUnited StatesAmericas

Canonical enforcement-industry dossiers

Browse all 20 OECD industry profiles

Each route carries the exact 2021-2024 cartel and dominance decision paths, same-year peer placement, activity ranks, source custody, and profile-scoped JSON/CSV without treating the category as a legal market.

Compare enforcement industriesTwo to four categories / counts, indexes, published shares, and exact source labels

Connect industries to the sector economyTwenty reviewed broad-sector codes / 17 joined Census packets / three disclosed evidence gaps

01Accommodation and food servicesAccomodation and food services 02Administrative, support, waste management, and remediation servicesAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 03Agriculture, forestry, fishing and huntingAgriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting 04Arts, entertainment, and recreationArts, Entertainment and Recreation 05ConstructionConstruction 06Educational servicesEducational Services 07Finance and insuranceFinance and Insurance 08Health care and social assistanceHealth Care and Social Assistance 09InformationInformation 10Management of companies and enterprisesManagement of Companies and Enterprises 11ManufacturingManufacturing 12Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extractionMining, Quarrying and Oil/Gas Extraction / Mining 13Other services except public administrationOther Services (except Public Administration)14Professional, scientific, and technical servicesProfessional, Scientific and Technical Services 15Public administrationPublic Administration 16Real estate rental and leasingReal Estate Rental and Leasing 17Retail tradeRetail Trade 18Transportation and warehousingTransportation and Warehousing 19UtilitiesUtilities 20Wholesale tradeWholesale Trade