Fifteenth Annual Federal Trade Commission Microeconomics Conference

The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University will host the 15th Annual FTC Microeconomics Conference on November 3 and 4, 2022 in Washington, D.C. This event will bring together scholars working in areas related to the FTC’s antitrust, consumer protection, and public policy missions.
The scientific committee for the conference is:

• Dirk Bergemann (Yale University)
• Julie Holland Mortimer (Boston College)
• Catherine Tucker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Organizers: Tom Koch (FTC) and Will Violette (FTC)
Staff Contact: Stephanie Aaron (202-326-3099)

We are continually monitoring the coronavirus situation as it pertains to our conference. If circumstances are such that an in-person conference would not be wise or feasible, we are making contingency plans to have an online event.

Call for Papers

We welcome submissions in industrial organization, information economics, health policy, behavioral economics, quantitative marketing, and other areas of applied microeconomics. We especially would like to encourage submission of papers on topics of Commission interest such as advertising in digital markets, vertical contracting, and information disclosure. More broadly, past conferences have featured topics such as advertising, collusion, consumer decision-making, demand estimation, innovation, intellectual property, merger policy, privacy and data security, and vertical integration.

Interested participants should submit an abstract or completed paper by June 22, 2022 to BE-Micro@ftc.gov. Please note preference will be given to completed papers. You should receive an email confirming receipt of your submission. If you do not, it means that we have not received it. Accepted participants should expect to provide a financial disclosure statement meeting the AEA’s guidelines to be included in their conference bios.

Sponsors

This conference is sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University.

Registration

To register, please fill out the registration form with your name, email, and affiliation. You will receive a confirmation email when your registration is complete. We will use your email address to contact you with information about the conference and will share your name and email address with the conference co-sponsors. The FTC Act and other laws we administer permit the collection of your pre-registration contact information and the comments you file to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. For additional information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see the Commission's system for mailing lists. For more details, please see the FTC Privacy Policy.

Attending the Workshop

The conference is free and open to the public. Please arrive in time to go through security. The security processing will include a metal detector and X-ray screening of all hand carried items. You must have a valid government issued photo ID (government badge, license, passport, etc.). The conference will follow the AEA’s code of professional conduct