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FTC Staff Warn Tennessee Legislature of Risks to Patients if Ballad Health COPA Expires and Support Proposed Repeal of Certificate of Need Requirements
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Federal Trade Commission staff warned Tennessee legislators of the potential harm to patients if it passes proposed legislation that would terminate a Certificate of Public Advantage (COPA) that...
FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson Launches Healthcare Task Force
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Today, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson directed FTC staff to form a Healthcare Task Force that will engage in a coordinated, integrated approach to healthcare enforcement and...
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An Atlas of US Physician Practice Choice and Firm Structure: 2015-2020, for Selected States from the FTC Physician and Facility Merger Study
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In this paper, we describe US physician practices using data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s Physician Practice and Healthcare Facility Merger Study. The data consists of healthcare claims...
FTC to Host February 26 Workshop on Measuring Injuries and Benefits in the Data-Driven Economy
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WHAT: The Federal Trade Commission is hosting a workshop, “Measuring Injuries and Benefits in the Data-Driven Economy,” to explore efforts to measure consumers’ privacy preferences, as well as the...
FTC Announces Agenda for Workshop on Informational Injuries
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The Federal Trade Commission announced the agenda for its February 26 workshop that will focus on how the agency can better understand and measure consumer injuries and benefits that may result from...
FTC to Host Workshop on Consumer Injuries and Benefits in the Data-Driven Economy
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The Federal Trade Commission will host a workshop on February 26, 2026, to examine how the agency can better understand and measure consumer injuries and benefits that may result from the collection...
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...
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