Commission Actions

We examine antidumping policy in a model where a foreign firm is a monopolist in the foreign market, but competes with a native firm in the home market. An antidumping policy changes strategic...

Antidumping Policy (393.65 KB)

Advocacy Filings

FTC Staff Comment Before the Federal Communications Commission In the Matter of Policies and Rules Concerning Interstate 900 Telecommunications Services

Date

July 1, 1991

Matter Number

V910014

FTC Staff Comment Before the Federal Communications Commission In the Matter of Policies and Rules Concerning Interstate 900 Telecommunications Services (21.89 MB)

Advocacy Filings

FTC Staff Comment Before the Federal Communications Commission In the Matter of Bundling of Cellular Customer Premises Equipment and Cellular Services

Date

July 1, 1991

Matter Number

V910016

FTC Staff Comment Before the Federal Communications Commission In the Matter of Bundling of Cellular Customer Premises Equipment and Cellular Services (16.51 MB)

Advocacy Filings

FTC Staff Comment Before the Supreme Court of New Mexico Concerning Attorney Advertising

Date

July 1, 1991

Matter Number

V910018

FTC Staff Comment Before the Supreme Court of New Mexico Concerning Attorney Advertising (4.85 MB)

June 25, 1991

Public Statement

Remarks before the National Association of Attorneys General

Date

June 25, 1991

Remarks of Chairman Janet Steiger before the National Association of Attorneys General's Summer Meeting (317.18 KB)

June 20, 1991

Advisory Opinions

IPA Sponsored PPO

Date

June 20, 1991

re: Concerning an IPA network's sponsorship of a PPO to negotiate prices with hospitals whose services will be marketed as part of the PPO.

Letter from Mark J. Horoshak to Martin J. Thompson, dated 06/20/91 (370.94 KB)

June 17, 1991

Public Statement

The Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Protection Priorities

Date

June 17, 1991

The Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Protection Priorities (421.55 KB)

June 1, 1991

Report

Are Judges Smarter than Economists? Sunk Costs, The Threat of Entry and The Competitive Process

Date

June 1, 1991

Several recent antitrust cases indicate that courts believe the threat of entry can serve as an effective deterrent to an anticompetitive price increase. Yet there does not exist in the economic...

Are Judges Smarter than Economists? Sunk Costs, The Threat of Entry and The Competitive Process (308.23 KB)

Report

Bondholder Reaction to Increases in Leverage

Date

June 1, 1991

This paper finds that firms that have substantially increased leverage are more likely to issue convertible debt than firms that have increased leverage only slightly. Also, firms that have...

Bondholder Reaction to Increases in Leverage (164.18 KB)

Advocacy Filings