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FTC Launches Joint Labor Task Force to Protect American Workers
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Today, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson directed the FTC to form a Joint Labor Task Force that will work to prioritize rooting out and prosecuting deceptive, unfair, and...
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Merger Analysis with Latent Price
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Standard empirical tools for merger analysis assume price data, which are often unavailable. I characterize sufficient conditions for identifying the unilateral effects of mergers without price data...
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Merger Analysis with Latent Price
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FTC Announces Virtual Workshop on Predatory Pricing
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The Federal Trade Commission will host a virtual public workshop on December 18, 2024, that will examine predatory pricing and its potential effects on consumers, competition, and innovation. The...
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Vertical Integration in a Sequential Model of a Supply Chain with Bargaining
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This article proposes a sequential model of a vertical supply chain and investigates the model’s predictions about vertical integration. The model accommodates both linear and non-linear pricing...
FTC Submits Annual Budget Request to Congress
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The Federal Trade Commission submitted to Congress its Fiscal Year 2025 budget request, in support of the President’s FY 2025 budget for the federal government. The budget request also includes the...
FTC and DOJ Announce Workshops on the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines
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The Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department announced today that they are co-hosting three workshops to facilitate public dialogue on the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines the agencies announced in...
Statement of Elizabeth Wilkins, Director of the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning, on the Decision of SUNY Upstate Medical University and Crouse Health System, Inc. to Drop Their Proposed Merger
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The Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning, Elizabeth Wilkins, issued the following statement in response to the decision by the State University of New York Upstate...
FTC Chair Khan Names Aviv Nevo as the Agency’s Director of Bureau of Economics
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Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan has appointed Aviv Nevo to serve as Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics. “I’m excited that we will have Aviv on board as the FTC’s director of the...
FTC Policy Paper Warns About Pitfalls of COPA Agreements for Patient Care and Healthcare Workers
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Today the Federal Trade Commission issued a policy paper and fact sheet highlighting the pitfalls of using Certificates of Public Advantage (COPAs), which purport to shield hospital mergers from...
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Consequences of Model Choice in Predicting Horizontal Merger Effects
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How practitioners model competition influences the predicted effects of a merger. We consider three models that are commonly used to evaluate horizontal mergers: Bertrand price setting, second score...
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Alvaro Bedoya Sworn in as FTC Commissioner
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Alvaro Bedoya was sworn in today as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. President Joe Biden named Bedoya to a term that expires on Sept. 25, 2026. Bedoya was confirmed by the U.S. Senate...
FTC Chair Lina M. Khan Announces New Appointments in Agency Leadership Positions
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Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan announced several new additions to the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning. Olivier Sylvain, Meredith Whittaker, Amba Kak, and Sarah Myers West will be working...
FTC Invites Public Comment on Draft Strategic Plan
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The Federal Trade Commission has released a preliminary draft Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2022 to 2026 for public review and comment. Every four years, government agencies are required to submit...
Federal Trade Commission Withdraws Vertical Merger Guidelines and Commentary
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The Federal Trade Commission voted to withdraw its approval of the Vertical Merger Guidelines, issued jointly with the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the FTC’s Vertical Merger Commentary. The...
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