Speeches/Articles by

William E. Kovacic, Chairman

Commissioner (2006-2008)
General Counsel (2001-2004)

• Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue
  Chairman William E. Kovacic, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
  Washington, DC
  April 7, 2008
• Market Forces, Competitive Dynamics, and Gasoline Prices: FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
  Prepared Statement of the FTC before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives
  May 22, 2007
  
• Statement of Commissioner William E. Kovacic, with whom Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras and Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch Join, In the Matter of Lockheed Martin Corporation, The Boeing Company, and United Launch Alliance, L.L.C., FTC File No. 051 0165, Docket No. C-4188
  May 8, 2007
• Recent Competition Policy Initiatives Concerning the Energy Industry
  Opening Statement before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  United States Senate
  April 10, 2007
• The Importance of History to the Design of Competition Policy Strategy: The Federal Trade Commission and Intellectual Property
  30 Seattle L. Rev. 319
  2007
• The Intellectual DNA of Modern U.S. Competition Law for Dominant Firm Conduct: The Chicago/Harvard Double Helix
  Columbia Bus. L. Rev. 1
  2007
• The Antitrust Legacy of the Rehnquist-O’Connor Court
  Roundtable Dicussion
  Antitrust, Vol. 20, No. 3
  Summer 2006
• Antitrust in the O’Connor-Rehnquist Era: A View from Inside the Supreme Court
  Antitrust, Vol. 20, No. 3
  Summer 2006
• FTC Jurisdiction Over Broadband Internet Access Services
  Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate
  June 14, 2006
• Petroleum Industry Consolidation
  Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate.
  February 1, 2006
• Statement of Chairman Majoras, Commissioner Kovacic, and Commissioner Rosch concerning the closing of the investigation into Transactions Involving Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Adelphia Communications
  January 31, 2006
• Using Ex Post Evaluations to Improve the Performance of Competition Policy Authorities
  31 J. Corportation L. 503
  2006
• The Impact of Leniency and Whistle-Blowing Programs on Cartels (with Cécile Aubert and Partick Rey)
  24 International J. Industrial Organization 1241
  2006
• Ernest Gellhorn: An Appreciation
  30 George Mason L. Rev. 1189
  2006
• The Future of U.S. Competition Policy
  Antitrust Source
  September 2004
• Market Forces, Anticompetitive Activity, and Gasoline Prices: FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
  Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives Hearing on Status of U.S. Refining Industry
  July 15, 2004
• Market Forces, Anticompetitive Activity, and Gasoline Prices: FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
  Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs, Committee on Government Reform, United States House of Representatives
  July 7, 2004
  
• Achieving Better Practices in the Design of Competition Policy Institutions
  Remarks before the Seoul Competition Forum 2004, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  April 20, 2004
• Market Forces, Anticompetitive Activity and Gasoline Prices – FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
  Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, United States Senate
  April 7, 2004 (Appendices A) (Appendices B)
  
• Interview with William E. Kovacic, General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission
  Antitrust Source
  January 2004
• Private Participation in the Enforcement of Public Competition Laws
  British Institution of International & Comparative Law, Third Annual Conference on International and Comparative Competition Law: The Transatlantic Antitrust Dialogue, London
  May 15, 2003
• Toward a Domestic Competition Network
  American Enterprise Institute Conference on "The New Antitrust Paradox: Policy Proliferation in the Global Economy,"
  Washington, D.C.
  April 21, 2003
• Extraterritoriality, Institutions, and Convergence in International Competition Policy
  A Paper Based Upon A Presentation Given At The Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C.
  April 5, 2003.
• The Modern Evolution of U.S. Competition Policy Enforcement Norms
  71 Antitrust L. J. 377
  2003
• Factors that May Affect Gasoline Prices
  Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs
  United States House of Representatives
  April 23, 2002
• Institutional Foundations for Economic Legal Reform in Transition Economies: The Case of Competition Policy and Antitrust Enforcement
  77 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 265
  2002
• Analytical Approaches and Institutional Processes for Implementing Competition Policy Reforms by the Federal Trade Commission (with Ernest Gellhorn)
  Prepared by Professors Gellhorn and Kovacic for the session on "What Institutional Processes Will Help the FTC To Attain Its Goals?" as part of the Federal Trade Commission's Hearings on the Changing Nature of Competition in a Global and Innovation-Driven Age.
  Dec. 12, 1995