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Children's Exposure to Television Advertising in 1977 and 2004: Information for the Obesity Debate: A Bureau of Economics Staff Report
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This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the amount and type of television advertising seen by children in 2004 and compares these results to similar studies conducted for the Federal Trade...
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Pricing Behavior of Multi-Product Retailers
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While retail sales are an important economic phenomenon, previous research has not explored how the multiproduct nature of consumers’ purchasing decisions affects the pricing dynamics of multiproduct...
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Pricing Behavior of Multi-Product Retailers
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Improving Consumer Mortgage Disclosures: An Empirical Assessment of Current and Prototype Disclosure Forms: A Bureau of Economics Staff Report
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This study presents the results of 36 in-depth interviews with recent mortgage customers, and quantitative consumer testing with over 800 mortgage customers, that examined how consumers search for...
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Executive Summary of the Report
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Text of the Report
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Sample Prototype Disclosure Form
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Sample Current Disclosure Forms
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Graduate as a Well-Educated Consumer, Too
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It is graduation time, with schools celebrating their students accomplishments and their readiness to move on to the next challenge. The Federal Trade Commission offers its own commencement advice for...
Children Not Seeing More Food Ads on Television
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Today’s children see more promotional ads for other programming, but fewer paid ads and fewer minutes of advertising on television, according to a report released today by the staff of the Federal...
Commission Approves Filing of Joint FTC/DOJ Comments with Michigan Governor on Real Estate Services Provision; FTC Receives Two Petitions for Proposed Divestitures from SCI and Alderwoods Group
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Commission approval of joint FTC/DOJ comments:The Commission has approved the filing of joint FTC/DOJ comments with Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm regarding Michigan House Bill (HB) 4416, which...
International Competition Network Presents Report on Unilateral Conduct and Announces Merger Convergence Project at its Sixth Annual Conference
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The Federal Trade Commission announced today that the sixth Annual International Competition Network (ICN) conference in Moscow, Russia, took significant steps toward strengthening antitrust...
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Service Corporation International, In the Matter of (timeline item) - June 1, 2007
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May 31, 2007
FTC Testifies on Government Agencies Collection and Use of Personal Information and Identity Theft
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The Federal Trade Commission today told the Ohio Privacy and Public Records Access Study Committee in Columbus, Ohio that public agencies can “play a key role in reducing the incidence and impact of...
May 30, 2007
FTC Reminds Businesses Law Requires Them to Truncate Credit Card Data on Receipts
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The Federal Trade Commission has issued “Slip Showing?,” an alert, to remind businesses that a federal law calls for them to truncate electronically processed credit card receipts to include no more...
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