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Jeffrey Fischer

Former Deputy Assistant Director

Bureau, Office or Division

Antitrust I

Email Address

jfischer@ftc.gov

Selected Publications

"Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? Structural Modelling and Natural Experiments in Merger Analysis," with Malcolm B. Coate, European Competition Journal, 2013.
"Daubert, Science, and Modern Game Theory: Implications for Merger Analysis," with Malcolm B. Coate, Supreme Court Economic Review, 2012.
"A Practical Guide to the Hypothetical Monopolist Test for Market Definition," with Malcolm B. Coate, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 2008.
"Critical Loss: Implementing the Hypothetical Monopolist Test," with Malcolm B. Coate, GCP: The Online Magazine for Global Competition Policy, 2008.
"A Review of West Coast Gasoline Pricing and the Impact of Regulations," with Christopher T. Taylor, International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2003.
"Midwest Gasoline Pricing and the Spring 2000 Price Spike," with Jeremy I. Bulow, Jay S. Creswell, Jr., and Christopher T. Taylor, Energy Journal, 2003.
"Can Post-Chicago Economics Survive Daubert?," with Malcolm B. Coate, Akron Law Review, 2001.
"Product Variety and Firm Agglomeration," with Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. , RAND Journal of Economics, 1996.
"Guilt by Association: An Analysis of Nonprice Horizontal Restraint Enforcement," The Economics of the Antitrust Process, 1996.
"Altruism, Matching, and Nonmarket Insurance," with Ralph Chami, Economic Inquiry, 1996.
"Gasoline Price Changes and the Petroleum Industry: An Update," 2011.
"Investigation of Gasoline Price Manipulation and Post-Katrina Gasoline Price Increases," 2006.
"Gasoline Price Changes: The Dynamic of Supply, Demand, and Competition," 2005.
"The Petroleum Industry: Mergers, Structural Change, and Antitrust Enforcement," 2004.

Education

Johns Hopkins University

PhD Economics

1993

Johns Hopkins University

MA Economics

1989

University of Pennsylvania

BA Economics

1986

Fields of Interest

Industrial Organization
Antitrust
Law and Economics
Game Theory

Professional Experience

Deputy Assistant Director
Federal Trade Commission
1996-present

Economist
Federal Trade Commission
1992-1996

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