Economics at the FTC: Multi-level Marketing and a Coal Joint Venture

Marta Wosińska (), David Givens (), Yan Lau (), Doug S. Smith (), Christopher Taylor () and Benjamin Wallace ()
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Marta Wosińska: Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics
David Givens: Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics
Yan Lau: Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics
Doug S. Smith: Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics
Christopher Taylor: Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics
Benjamin Wallace: Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics

Review of Industrial Organization, 2021, vol. 59, issue 4, No 4, 629-650

Abstract: Abstract Economists in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics support the Commission’s dual missions of protecting consumers and maintaining competition by performing economic analyses. This article provides two examples of such work product: The first is a description of an analytical framework that FTC consumer protection economists use to assess multi-level marketing organizations. The second is a description of economic analysis that was undertaken to assess the effect of a joint venture between two coal companies that ultimately was challenged by the Commission.

Keywords: Antitrust; Consumer protection; Multi-level marketing; FTC; Mergers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s11151-021-09845-8

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