Most economists agree that, overall, U.S. antitrust policy has been most successful in
A) promoting competition and efficiency.
B) remedying existing anticompetitive behavior.
C) deterring price-fixing and anticompetitive mergers.
D) breaking up monopolies.

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While all of the options have been goals of U.S. antitrust policy, most agree that the policy has been most successful in deterring price-fixing and anticompetitive mergers. This is evidenced by the numerous successful enforcement actions taken by the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission against companies engaging in anticompetitive behavior. While breaking up monopolies has been a notable past success of antitrust policy, it has become less common in recent decades.

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