CONFERENCE INFORMATION
PURPOSE
The Federal Trade Commission Microeconomics Conference will bring together scholars working in areas related to the FTC’s antitrust, consumer protection, and public policy missions.
SPONSORS
This conference is sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics and Northwestern University’s Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
The scientific committee for the Sixth Annual Federal Trade Commission Microeconomics Conference consists of Meghan Busse from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, Dennis Carlton from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Kate Ho from Columbia University, and Robert Porter from Northwestern University. The FTC conference organizers are Chris Adams and Nathan Wilson.
BACKGROUND
The annual Federal Trade Commission Microeconomics Conference began in 2008 and grew out of the idea that the FTC could benefit from bringing together researchers from universities throughout the world, other government agencies, and other organizations to discuss antitrust, consumer protection, and policy issues that the economists in the FTC’s Bureau of Economics encounter in their work. The conference also provides an opportunity for scholars outside the FTC to gain a better understanding of the work of the FTC and the economic analysis conducted within the FTC’s Bureau of Economics.
The Sixth Annual Federal Trade Commission Microeconomics Conference will bring together scholars working in areas related to the FTC’s antitrust, consumer protection, and public policy missions November 7-8, 2013, at the Federal Trade Commission Conference Center in Washington, D.C.
SCHEDULE
Thursday, November 7
Registration ...................................... 8:30 am - 9:00 am
Conference Program ........................ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, November 8
Conference Program ........................ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
LOCATION
The conference will be held at the Federal Trade Commission’s New Jersey Avenue Conference Center located at 601 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001.
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