Featured Research: Book Store Merger

This week, hedge fund manager William Ackman, a major shareholder in Borders Group Inc., said he would be willing to finance a $960 million bid for the company's purchase of bookstore rival Barnes and Noble. But Luke M. Froeb, William C. Oehmig Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at Owen and former Director of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics, sees regulatory roadblocks ahead for any such big-box bookstore deal.