FTC Hearing 13: April 12 Session 2 Remarks by FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter followed by Panel Discussions on Merger Retrospectives And Horizontal Merger Policy, and the FTC's Merger Retrospective Program in the Next Decade

The FTC held a hearing on merger retrospectives April 12, 2019 at FTC headquarters in Washington, DC, as part of its Hearings initiative.

This is a video recording of the afternoon session with the following:

• Remarks by FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter
• Panel discussion on Should the Findings from Merger Retrospectives Influence Horizontal Merger Policy, and If So, How?
• Panel discussion on What Should the FTC's Retrospective Program Be Over the Next Decade?
• Closing remarks by David Schmidt, FTC Bureau of Economics.

This hearing gathered information from experts to help guide the FTC’s future merger retrospective research program.