FTC Hearing 13: April 12 Session 1 Opening Remarks by FTC Chairman Joe Simons followed by Panel Discussions on Learning from Existing Merger Retrospectives And Using Merger Retrospectives to Improve Prospective Merger Analysis

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 morning session with the following:

• Welcoming remarks by Bruce Kobayashi, director of FTC Bureau of Economics 
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  Opening remarks by FTC Chairman Joe Simons  
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  Panel discussion on What Have We Learned from Existing Merger Retrospectives? 
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  Panel discussion on How Can Merger Retrospectives Be Used to Improve Prospective Merger Analysis? 

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