Eighteenth Annual Microeconomics Conference

The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University will host the 18th Annual FTC Microeconomics Conference on November 13 and 14, 2025 in Washington, D.C. This event will bring together scholars working in areas related to the FTC’s antitrust, consumer protection, and public policy missions. This will be an in-person event with a live stream for those who want to view remotely.

The scientific committee for the conference is:

• Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)
• Matthew Grennan (Emory University)
• Kevin Williams (Yale University)

Organizers: Samuel Kleiner (FTC) and Eric Spurlino (FTC)

Staff Contact: Stephanie Aaron

Call for Papers

We welcome submissions in industrial organization, information economics, health economics, behavioral economics, quantitative marketing, and other areas of applied microeconomics. We especially would like to encourage submission of papers on health care markets, labor markets, fraud, digital markets, and the effects of new technologies (e.g. AI) on the marketplace. More broadly, past conferences have featured topics such as advertising, collusion, consumer decision-making, demand estimation, intellectual property, merger policy, privacy and data security, and vertical integration.

Interested participants should submit an abstract or completed paper by June 23, 2025 to BE-Micro@ftc.gov. Please note preference will be given to completed papers. You should receive an email confirming receipt of your submission. If you do not, it means that we have not received it. Accepted participants should expect to provide a financial disclosure statement meeting the Bureau of Economics' guidelines to be included in their conference bios.

Sponsors

This conference is sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University.

Registration

To register, please fill out the registration form with your name, email, and affiliation. You will receive a confirmation email when your registration is complete. We will use your email address to contact you with information about the conference and will share your name and email address with the conference co-sponsors. The FTC Act and other laws we administer permit the collection of your pre-registration contact information and the comments you file to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. For additional information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see the Commission’s system for mailing lists. For more details, please see the FTC Privacy Policy.

Attending the Workshop

The conference is free and open to the public. Please arrive early with enough time to go through security. The security processing will include a metal detector and X-ray screening of all hand carried items. You must have a valid government issued photo ID (government badge, license, passport, etc.). The conference will follow the AEA’s code of professional conduct, and requires presenters to adhere to the Bureau of Economics' disclosure policies. These disclosures will be included in the presenters’ bios.