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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...

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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)

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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)

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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)

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The Effect of Hospital Mergers on Inpatient Prices: A Case Study of the New Hanover-Cape Fear Transaction

Date

January 1, 2009

The Federal Trade Commission initiated a Hospital Merger Retrospective Project in 2002 to analyze the effects of consummated mergers. One of the mergers studied was the 1998 acquisition by New Hanover...

The Effect of Hospital Mergers on Inpatient Prices: A Case Study of the New Hanover-Cape Fear Transaction (100.3 KB)

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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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Section 319 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003: Third Interim Federal Trade Commission Report to Congress Concerning the Accuracy of Information in Credit Reports

Date

December 1, 2008

This study examines accuracy in consumer credit reports using a nationally representative sample of consumers with credit histories. Participants in the study examined their credit reports from the...

Text of the Commission Report (121.62 KB)

Attachment 1: Privacy Policy for the Registration Web Site of the FTC Credit Report Accuracy Study (68.38 KB)

Attachment 2: Privacy Impact Assessment of the Registration Web Site for the FTC Credit Report Accuracy Study (60.26 KB)

Attachment 3: Pilot Study 2 on Processes for Determining the Accuracy of Credit Bureau Information (1.95 MB)

Nov06

Event

The First Annual Microeconomics Conference

November 6, 2008 | 12:00AM - November 7, 2008 | 12:00AM

The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics hosted a two day conference to bring together scholars working in industrial organization, information economics, game theory, quantitative marketing...

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The Price Effects of Hospital Mergers: A Case Study of the Sutter-Summit Transaction

Date

November 1, 2008

We conduct a retrospective study of the Sutter-Summit hospital merger to assess whether antitrust enforcement in this matter was appropriate. This consummated merger combined two hospitals located...

The Price Effects of Hospital Mergers: A Case Study of the Sutter-Summit Transaction (117.59 KB)

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Economics at the FTC: The Google-DoubleClick Merger, Resale Price Maintenance, Mortgage Disclosures, and Credit Scoring in Auto Insurance

Date

September 1, 2008

Economics at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) supports both the competition and consumer protection missions of the agency. In this year’s essay we discuss competition activity with a summary of our...

Economics at the FTC: The Google-DoubleClick Merger, Resale Price Maintenance, Mortgage Disclosures, and Credit Scoring in Auto Insurance (117.95 KB)

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The Role of Education in the Production of Health: An Empirical Analysis of Smoking Behavior

Date

June 1, 2008

We estimate the effect of education and student status on the propensity to smoke. Our estimation strategy accounts for the endogeneity of education by “differencing out” the impact of unobserved...

The Role of Education in the Production of Health: An Empirical Analysis of Smoking Behavior (146.93 KB)

May29

Event

Consumer Information & the Mortgage Market

May 29, 2008 | 8:00AM - 5:30PM

Housing and mortgage market turmoil is affecting the financial security of countless hardworking Americans, and raising questions about the adequacy of consumer protection regulations in mortgage and...

Report

Consumer Fraud in the United States: The Second Federal Trade Commission Survey

Date

October 1, 2007

This study reports the results of the Federal Trade Commission’s second statistical survey of fraud in the United States. The survey found that 30.2 million adults – 13.5 percent of the adult...

Consumer Fraud in the US: Second FTC Survey - October 2007 (5.02 MB)

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Summary Report On The FTC Behavioral Economics Conference

Date

September 14, 2007

A summary report on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) conference “Behavioral Economics and Consumer Policy Conference,” held on April 20, 2007 in Washington, DC. Sponsored by the Bureau of Economics...

Report on the FTC conference “Behavioral Economics and Consumer Policy Conference,” held on April 20, 2007 (75.24 KB)

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Vertical Relationships and Competition in Retail Gasoline Markets: Comment

Date

September 1, 2007

In a paper in the March 2004 AER, Justine Hastings concludes that the acquisition of an independent gasoline retailer, Thrifty, by a vertically integrated firm, ARCO, is associated with sizable price...

Vertical Relationships and Competition in Retail Gasoline Markets: Comment (137.04 KB)

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Economics at the FTC: Pharmaceutical Patent Dispute Settlements and Behavioral Economics

Date

September 1, 2007

Economics at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) supports both the competition and consumer protection missions of the agency. In this year's essay we discuss two issues, one from each of the agency...

Economics at the FTC: Pharmaceutical Patent Dispute Settlements and Behavioral Economics (325.3 KB)

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FTC, Antitrust Division Send Report to President on Factors Explaining National Average Gasoline Price Increases During Spring and Summer of 2006

Date

August 30, 2007

Market factors explain increases in the national average retail price for gasoline during the spring and summer of 2006, according to a report sent to the President today by the Federal Trade...

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