Speeches, Articles, and Statements by
William E. Kovacic, Commissioner
Commissioner (2006-Present)
Chairman (2008-2009)
General Counsel (2001-2004)
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Speeches and Articles
Competition Policy: Domestic and International
- Letter from William E. Kovacic to Dorval Carter, Chief Counsel, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), concerning public interest waiver of FTA's "Buy American" provisions as they apply to motor coach purchases
December 7, 2010 - Dominance, Duopoly and Oligopoly: the United States and the Development of Global Competition Policy
14 Global Competition Review 39
December 2010 - The International Competition Network: Its Past, Current and Future Role (with Hugh Hollman)
20:2 Minnesota Journal of International Law 274-323
June 2011 - The First Decade: Challenges Facing New Competition Agencies
Belgrade, Serbia
June 26, 2010 - Agency Culture, Organizational Identity, and People
International Competition Network Agency Effectiveness Workshop, London, England
June 12, 2010 - Outpost Years for a Start-up Agency: The FTC from 1921-1925 (with Marc Winerman)
77 Antitrust Law Journal 145
2010 - Competition Policy and the Application of Section 5 of the FTC Act (with Marc Winerman)
76 Antitrust Law Journal 929
2010 - The Application of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act
ABA Fall Forum, Washington, D.C.
November 12, 2009 - Rating the Competition Agencies: What Constitutes Good Performance?
16 George Mason Law Review 903
2009 - Cartels as Two-Stage Mechanisms: Implications for the Analysis of Dominant-Firm Conduct (with Randal D. Heeb, Robert C. Marshall, and Leslie M. Marx )
10 Chicago Journal of International Law 213
Summer 2009 - Competition Policy and International Trade Liberalisation: Essential Complements to Ensure Good Performance in Public Procurement Markets (with Robert D. Anderson)
18 Public Procurement Law Review (2009) - Assessing the Quality of Competition Policy: The Case of Horizontal Merger Enforcement
5 Competition Policy International 129 (2009) - The Future of U.S. Competition Policy at Home and Abroad
Competition Law Association, London, England
March 23, 2009 - Engineering the Competition Agency of the Future: Perspectives from the FTC Self Study
Office of Fair Trading, London, England
March 4, 2009 - Rating the Competition Agencies: What Constitutes Good Performance?
Kings College, London, England
March 4, 2009 - Competition Policy in the EU and the US: Convergence or Divergence?
FIDE, Madrid, Spain
February 17, 2009 - Energy and Competition Policy in United States
CNE, Madrid, Spain
February 17, 2009 - The Continuing Pursuit of Better Practices: Perspectives from the FTC Self-Study
CNE, Madrid, Spain
February 17, 2009 - Engineering the Competition Agency of the Future: Perspectives from the FTC Self-Study
ICN Agency Effectiveness Workshop
Brussels
January 23, 2009 - The United States and the Future Development of Global Competition Policy
Georgetown Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium
Washington, D.C.
September 23, 2008 - "Rating the Competition Agencies: What Is Good Performance?”
CBA Competition Law Conference
September 18, 2008
- Interview
Concurrences, Revue des droits de la concurrence
No. 3 (2008) - Review of Antitrust Stories (E. Fox and D. Crane, Eds.)
4 Competition Policy International 241
2008 - Interview with William E. Kovacic, Chairman
Federal Trade Commission
The Antitrust Source
August 8, 2008 - The Federal Trade Commission at 100: Into Our Second Century
21st Annual Western Conference of the Rutgers University Center for Research in Regulated Industries
Monterey, California
June 18, 2008 - Competition Policy in the European Union and the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Bates White Fifth Annual Antitrust Conference
Washington, D.C.
June 2, 2008 - Competition Policy, Consumer Protection, and Economic Disadvantage
25 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 101
2007 - Lucky Trip? Perspectives From A Foreign Advisor On Competition Policy, Development and Technical Assistance
3 European Competition Journal 319
December 2007 - The Importance of History to the Design of Competition Policy Strategy: The Federal Trade Commission and Intellectual Property
30 Seattle L. Rev. 319
2007 - The Intellectual DNA of Modern U.S. Competition Law for Dominant Firm Conduct: The Chicago/Harvard Double Helix
Columbia Bus. L. Rev. 1
2007 - The Antitrust Legacy of the Rehnquist-O'Connor Court
Roundtable Discussion
Antitrust, Vol. 20, No. 3
Summer 2006 - Antitrust in the O'Connor-Rehnquist Era: A View from Inside the Supreme Court
Antitrust, Vol. 20, No. 3
Summer 2006 - Using Ex Post Evaluations to Improve the Performance of Competition Policy Authorities
31 J. Corporation L. 503
2006 - The Impact of Leniency and Whistle-Blowing Programs on Cartels (with Cécile Aubert and Patrick Rey)
24 International J. Industrial Organization 1241
2006 - The Future of U.S. Competition Policy
Antitrust Source
September 2004 - Achieving Better Practices in the Design of Competition Policy Institutions
Remarks before the Seoul Competition Forum 2004, Seoul, Republic of Korea
April 20, 2004 - Interview with William E. Kovacic, General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission
Antitrust Source
January 2004 - Private Participation in the Enforcement of Public Competition Laws
British Institution of International & Comparative Law, Third Annual Conference on International and Comparative Competition Law: The Transatlantic Antitrust Dialogue, London
May 15, 2003 - Toward a Domestic Competition Network
American Enterprise Institute Conference on "The New Antitrust Paradox: Policy Proliferation in the Global Economy,"
Washington, D.C.
April 21, 2003 - Extraterritoriality, Institutions, and Convergence in International Competition Policy
A Paper Based Upon A Presentation Given At The Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C.
April 5, 2003 - The Modern Evolution of U.S. Competition Policy Enforcement Norms
71 Antitrust L. J. 377
2003 - Institutional Foundations for Economic Legal Reform in Transition Economies: The Case of Competition Policy and Antitrust Enforcement
77 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 265
2002 - Analytical Approaches and Institutional Processes for Implementing Competition Policy Reforms by the Federal Trade Commission (with Ernest Gellhorn)
Prepared by Professors Gellhorn and Kovacic for the session on "What Institutional Processes Will Help the FTC To Attain Its Goals?" as part of the Federal Trade Commission's Hearings on the Changing Nature of Competition in a Global and Innovation-Driven Age.
Dec. 12, 1995
Consumer Protection
- The Enduring Significance of Poland's Antimonopoly Law
Office of Competition and Consumer Protection of Poland, Warsaw, Poland
May 27, 2010 - Interview with William E. Kovacic, Chairman
C-SPAN
October 18, 2008 - Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue
Chairman William E. Kovacic, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
Washington, DC
April 7, 2008 - Interview with William E. Kovacic, General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission
Antitrust Source
January 2004
Intellectual Property
- The Importance of History to the Design of Competition Policy Strategy: The Federal Trade Commission and Intellectual Property
30 Seattle L. Rev. 319
2007
Internet, Telecom, Technology
- The Digital Broadband Migration and the Federal Trade Commission: Building the Competition and Consumer Protection Agency of the Future
8 Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law 1
2010
Tribute
- The Federal Trade Commission at 100: Into Our Second Century
The Continuing Pursuit of Better Practices: A Report by Federal Trade Commission Chairman William E. Kovacic
January 2009 - Ernest Gellhorn: An Appreciation
30 George Mason L. Rev. 1189
2006
Congressional Testimony
Competition
- Market Forces, Competitive Dynamics, and Gasoline Prices: FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
Prepared Statement of the FTC before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives
May 22, 2007 - Recent Competition Policy Initiatives Concerning the Energy Industry
Opening Statement before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
United States Senate
April 10, 2007 - Market Forces, Anticompetitive Activity, and Gasoline Prices: FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives Hearing on Status of U.S. Refining Industry
July 15, 2004 - Market Forces, Anticompetitive Activity, and Gasoline Prices: FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs, Committee on Government Reform, United States House of Representatives
July 7, 2004 - Market Forces, Anticompetitive Activity and Gasoline Prices - FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, United States Senate
April 7, 2004 ( Appendices A ) ( Appendices B ) - Factors that May Affect Gasoline Prices
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs
United States House of Representatives
April 23, 2002
Consumer Protection
- Statement Submitted for the Record by Commissioner William E. Kovacic on the Proposal to Create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency
to the Committee on Energy & Commerce and the Committee on Financial Services
U.S. House of Representatives
July 28, 2009
Energy
- Recent Competition Policy Initiatives Concerning the Energy Industry
Opening Statement before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
United States Senate
April 10, 2007
Gas Prices
- Market Forces, Competitive Dynamics, and Gasoline Prices: FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
Prepared Statement of the FTC before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives
May 22, 2007 - Petroleum Industry Consolidation
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate.
February 1, 2006 - Market Forces, Anticompetitive Activity, and Gasoline Prices: FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives Hearing on Status of U.S. Refining Industry
July 15, 2004 - Market Forces, Anticompetitive Activity, and Gasoline Prices: FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs, Committee on Government Reform, United States House of Representatives
July 7, 2004 - Market Forces, Anticompetitive Activity and Gasoline Prices - FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, United States Senate
April 7, 2004 ( Appendices A ) ( Appendices B ) - Factors that May Affect Gasoline Prices
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs
United States House of Representatives
April 23, 2002
Internet, Telecom, Technology
- FTC Jurisdiction Over Broadband Internet Access Services
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate
June 14, 2006
Commissioner Statements
Internet, Telecom, Technology
National Security & Competition