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Tenet Healthcare Corporation and Frye Regional Medical Center, Inc. (timeline item) - February 3, 2004
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February 3, 2004
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., et al. v. Empagran S.A.
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Citation Number
03-724
Federal Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Joint brief of the United States and the Federal Trade Commission, as amici curiae, supporting petitioner Hoffmann-La Roche, and arguing that, under the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act...
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February 2, 2004
FTC Issues Horizontal Merger Investigation Data
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The Federal Trade Commission today released a staff analysis of horizontal merger investigations for fiscal years 1996 to 2003. The merger data released contains tabulated market share and...
Subprime Loan Victims to Receive Additional Redress
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Nearly 20,000 borrowers will receive a second compensation check this week from a redress fund that resulted from the FTC’s settlement with home mortgage lender First Alliance Mortgage Company and its...
Phoney Location Service Provider Settles FTC Charges
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American Eagle Placements, based in Stone Mountain, Georgia, and its owner, Forrest Adams entered into a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that bans them from advertising or selling...
FTC Charges Arizona Firm With Misleading and Threatening Consumers in Pitch to "Protect" Their Personal Information
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced the filing of a federal district court complaint against an Arizona-based company and its principals for allegedly violating the FTC Act and the...
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North Texas Specialty Physicians, In the Matter of (timeline item) - February 2, 2004
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First Alliance Mortgage Company, First Alliance Corporation, First Alliance Mortgage Company (timeline item) - February 2, 2004
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Document
February 1, 2004
Report
Quantifying Antitrust Regimes
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This paper introduces means of quantifying global trend of proliferation in antitrust laws, and introduces measures to assess the presence of such laws across a large set of countries. In particular...
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Quantifying Antitrust Regimes
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Horizontal Merger Investigation Data, Fiscal Years 1996-2003
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Text of the Report [PDF 359K]
(394.86 KB)
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The Effect of Mortgage Broker Compensation Disclosures on Consumers and Competition: A Controlled Experiment
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This report presents the results of a study that uses a controlled experiment with over 500 recent mortgage customers to examine the mortgage broker compensation disclosure proposed by the Department...
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Full Report
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Executive Summary
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Text of the Report
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Appendices
(1.15 MB)
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Is It Always Optimal to “Sell the Firm” to a Risk-Neutral Agent?
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The paper shows that the answer is no. Holmstrom (1979) and Shavell (1979) show that the sellthe firm contract does not achieve the first best when the principal and the agent have different...
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January 30, 2004
National Consumer Protection Week 2004 Focuses on Financial Literacy
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The sixth annual National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW) is February 1-7, 2004. Each year, NCPW highlights consumer protection and education efforts across the country. The theme for this year’s...
Announced Actions for January 30, 2004
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Commission approval of petition to reopen and modify final order: The Commission has approved a petition from Aventis S.A. (Aventis), the successor company to Hoechst AG and Rhone-Poulenc S.A. (RP)...
La Semana Nacional De Protección Del Consumidor 2004 Se Centra En La Educación Financiera
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La semana del 1º al 7 de febrero de 2004, marca la Semana Nacional de Protección del Consumidor (National Consumer Protection Week, NCPW) por sexto año consecutivo. Cada año, la semana llamada NCPW...
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General Electric Company, In the Matter of (timeline item) - January 30, 2004
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Decision and Order
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Appendix III
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Order to Maintain Assets
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Complaint
(13.66 KB)
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