Economics at the FTC: Office Supply Retailers Redux, Healthcare Quality Efficiencies Analysis, and Litigation of an Alleged Get-Rich-Quick Scheme

Keith Brand (), Martin Gaynor, Patrick McAlvanah, David Schmidt and Elizabeth Schneirov ()

Review of Industrial Organization, 2014, vol. 45, issue 4, 325-344

Abstract: We discuss in this essay three of the matters on which economists in the Bureau of Economics (BE) at the Federal Trade Commission have worked this past year. BE revisited familiar ground in the first matter, a proposed merger of office supply retailers. The second part of the essay considers efficiency claims in health care mergers, with focus on the acquisition of a physician group by a health care system in Idaho. The final part of the essay discusses empirical work that was undertaken by the Bureau to investigate claims made by marketers of an alleged get-rich-quick scheme. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York (outside the USA) 2014

Keywords: Antitrust; Consumer protection; Fraud; FTC; Healthcare; Retailing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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