These annual articles discuss some of the recent economic issues that the Bureau of Economics has worked on.
Economics at the FTC: Physician Acquisitions, Standard Essential Patents, and Accuracy of Credit Reporting
Economists at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission pursue the agency’s competition and consumer protection missions. In this year’s essay, with respect to antitrust we discuss the analysis that is used in two
Economics at the FTC: Drug and PBM Mergers and Drip Pricing
Economists at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission (FTC) pursue the agencyÂ’'s competition and consumer protection missions. In this yearÂ’'s essay, in antitrust, we discuss two recent mergers that involved Rx
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Economics at the FTC: Hospital Mergers, Authorized Generic Drugs, and Consumer Credit Markets
Economists at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission (FTC) pursue the agencyÂ’'s competition and consumer protection missions. In this yearÂ’'s essay, in antitrust, we discuss various aspects of our hospital
Economics at the FTC: Mergers, Dominant-Firm Conduct, and Consumer Behavior
Economists at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission (FTC) pursue the agency'Â’s competition and consumer protection missions. In this year'Â’s essay, in antitrust, we discuss the new Merger Guidelines, three
Economics at the FTC: Retrospective Merger Analysis with A Focus on Hospitals
Economists at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission (FTC) support the agencyÂ’'s competition and consumer protection missions. In this year'Â’s essay we discuss efforts at the FTC and elsewhere to examine
Economics at the FTC: The Google-DoubleClick Merger, Resale Price Maintenance, Mortgage Disclosures, and Credit Scoring in Auto Insurance
Economics at the Â鶹´«Ã½ 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: Pharmaceutical Patent Dispute Settlements and Behavioral Economics
Economics at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission (FTC) supports both the competition and consumer protection missions of the agency. In this yearÂ’'s essay we discuss two issues, one from each of the agencyÂ’
Economics at the FTC: Data Intensive Mergers and Policy R&D
Economics at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission (FTC) supports both the competition and consumer protection missions of the agency. In this year'Â’s essay we discuss a range of activities focusing on data
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Economics at the FTC: Cases and Research, with a Focus on Petroleum
Economics at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission (FTC) covers both the antitrust and consumer protection missions. In this yearÂ’'s essay, we focus mainly on the competition-side of the agency. Drawing on a
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Economics Research at the FTC: Information, Retrospectives, and Retailing
Individual Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission (FTC) cases invariably raise broad questions about consumers, markets, and effective enforcement policy. Recent consumer protection cases raise questions about
Empirical Analyses of Potential Competitive Effects of a Horizontal Merger: The FTC's Cruise Ships Mergers Investigation
This paper highlights some of the staff analyses on the Royal Caribbean/Princess/Carnival investigations.
Current Economic Issues at the FTC
This paper reviewed economic issues at the FTC in 2002.
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Current Economic Issues at the FTC
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