Economics at the FTC: Physician Acquisitions, Standard Essential Patents, and Accuracy of Credit Reporting

Julie Carlson (), Leemore Dafny (), Beth Freeborn (), Pauline Ippolito () and Brett Wendling ()

Review of Industrial Organization, 2013, vol. 43, issue 4, 303-326

Abstract: Economists at the Federal Trade Commission pursue the agency’s competition and consumer protection missions. In this year’s essay, with respect to antitrust we discuss the analysis that is used in two areas where the Commission has recently been active: physician combinations and standard essential patents. In consumer protection, we discuss the FTC’s recently released national study of the accuracy of consumer credit reports. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York (outside the USA) 2013

Keywords: Antitrust; Consumer protection; Credit accuracy; FTC; Physician combinations; Standard essential patents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s11151-013-9411-y

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