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FTC Issues New Report on Gasoline Prices and the Petroleum Industry

Date

September 1, 2011

The Federal Trade Commission today issued a Bureau of Economics staff report examining trends in the petroleum industry and how they have affected gasoline prices between 2005 and early 2011. It...

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FTC Staff Submits Comment to FERC on Assessing the Effects of Proposed Horizontal Mergers on Market Power

Date

June 7, 2011

The Federal Trade Commission’s staff submitted a comment to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission providing views on how energy regulators should apply the revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines...

Nov18

Event

Third Annual Microeconomics Conference

November 18, 2010 | 12:00AM - November 19, 2010 | 12:00AM

The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics, Northwestern University’s Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth, and Northwestern University’s Center for the Study of Industrial...

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A Retrospective Analysis of the Clinical Quality Effects of the Acquisition of Highland Park Hospital by Evanston Northwestern Healthcare

Date

November 1, 2010

In 2004, the Federal Trade Commission brought legal action retrospectively challenging the 2000 acquisition of Highland Park Hospital by Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evanston, Illinois. A major...

A Retrospective Analysis of the Clinical Quality Effects of the Acquisition of Highland Park Hospital by Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (179.82 KB)

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Naked Exclusion by a Dominant Supplier: Exclusive Contracting and Loyalty Discounts

Date

November 1, 2010

Recent literature has shown that an incumbent can use exclusive contracts to maintain supra-competitive prices, but only if he completely prevents a more efficient potential entrant from entering, and...

Naked Exclusion by a Dominant Supplier: Exclusive Contracting and Loyalty Discounts (355.51 KB)

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Economics at the FTC: Mergers, Dominant-Firm Conduct, and Consumer Behavior

Date

October 1, 2010

Economists at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) pursue the agency's competition and consumer protection missions. In this year's essay, in antitrust, we discuss the new Merger Guidelines, three...

Economics at the FTC: Mergers, Dominant-Firm Conduct, and Consumer Behavior (457.33 KB)

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Job Insecurity isn’t Always Efficient

Date

September 1, 2010

Workers value job security. If at least some workers value it enough, then it is efficient for at least some firms to adopt policies in which they commit (implicitly or explicitly) not to dismiss...

Job Insecurity isn’t Always Efficient (190.35 KB)

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State Regulation of Alcohol Distribution: The Effects of Post & Hold Laws on Consumption and Social Harms

Date

August 1, 2010

PUBLISHED AS: Alcohol, antitrust, and the 21st Amendment: An empirical examination of post and hold laws The Twenty-first Amendment repealed prohibition, but granted the states broad power to regulate...

State Regulation of Alcohol Distribution: The Effects of Post & Hold Laws on Consumption and Social Harms (271.85 KB)

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Edgeworth Price Cycles in Gasoline: Evidence from the U.S.

Date

June 1, 2010

Studies of gasoline prices in multiple countries have found a repeated sequence of asymmetric cycles where a sharp price increase is followed by gradual decreases. This price pattern is linked to...

Edgeworth Price Cycles in Gasoline: Evidence from the U.S. (233.58 KB)

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Entry Threats and Pricing in the Generic Drug Industry

Date

June 1, 2010

We provide the first analysis of potential competition in the generic drug industry. Our identification strategy exploits a provision of the Hatch-Waxman Act that rewards 180 days of marketing...

Entry Threats and Pricing in the Generic Drug Industry (93.7 KB)

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Asymmetric Pass-Through in U.S. Gasoline Prices

Date

June 1, 2010

This paper presents new evidence of asymmetric pass-through, the notion that upward cost shocks are passed through faster than downward cost shocks, in U.S. gasoline prices. Much of the extant...

Asymmetric Pass-Through in U.S. Gasoline Prices (1.15 MB)

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Emergency Technology For Use With ATMs, Pursuant to the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009

Date

May 4, 2010

Text of the Report (120.27 KB)

Report

Petroleum Mergers and Competition in the Northeast United States

Date

April 1, 2010

Sunoco’s 2004 acquisition of El Paso’s, New Jersey refinery and Valero’s 2005 acquisition of Premcor’s Delaware refinery significantly consolidated refinery control in the U.S. Northeast. The Federal...

Petroleum Mergers and Competition in the Northeast United States (232.97 KB)

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The Welfare Effects of Use-or-Lose Provisions in Markets with Dominant Firms

Date

February 1, 2010

A use-or-lose provision requires firms to employ a certain minimum fraction of their productive capacity. Variants have been used by regulators in the airline, natural gas transmission, and electric...

The Welfare Effects of Use-or-Lose Provisions in Markets with Dominant Firms (204.02 KB)

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Competition, Contracts, and Innovation

Date

December 1, 2009

Our paper contributes to the literature on the relationship between innovation and market power by considering how changes in the intensity of product market competition affect innovation when...

Competition, Contracts, and Innovation (570.17 KB)

Nov19

Event

The Second Annual Microeconomics Conference

November 19, 2009 | 12:00AM - November 20, 2009 | 12:00AM

The two-day conference brought together scholars working in industrial organization, information economics, game theory, quantitative marketing, consumer behavior, and other areas related to the FTC’s...

Report

Economics at the FTC: Retrospective Merger Analysis with A Focus on Hospitals

Date

October 1, 2009

Economists at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) support the agency's competition and consumer protection missions. In this year's essay we discuss efforts at the FTC and elsewhere to examine...

Economics at the FTC: Retrospective Merger Analysis with A Focus on Hospitals (145.03 KB)

Report

The Evolution of the Baby Food Industry 2000-2008

Date

April 1, 2009

Eight years have elapsed since the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) prevented the merger of the formerly number two and number three baby food manufacturers in the U.S. Since the abandoned merger, the...

The Evolution of the Baby Food Industry 2000-2008 (72.63 KB)

Report

The Success of Divestitures in Merger Enforcement: Evidence from the J&J-Pfizer Transaction

Date

April 1, 2009

Despite being a widely used tool in merger enforcement, there have been few studies of whether antitrust divestitures are successful. We help fill this void by conducting a study of the divestitures...

The Success of Divestitures in Merger Enforcement: Evidence from the J&J-Pfizer Transaction (118.92 KB)

Report

Two Hospital Mergers on Chicago’s North Shore: A Retrospective Study

Date

January 1, 2009

We provide an in-depth analysis of the price effects of two hospital mergers that occurred in the north shore suburbs of Chicago in early 2000: Evanston Northwestern Healthcare’s (ENH) purchase of...

Two Hospital Mergers on Chicago’s North Shore: A Retrospective Study (347.82 KB)

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