caa a22 4500 467930252 CHVBK 20180406152941.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11151-006-9121-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11151-006-9121-9 Economics at the FTC: Data Intensive Mergers and Policy R&D [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Salinger, Keith Anderson, Christopher Garmon, David Schmidt, John Yun] Economics at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) supports both the competition and consumer protection missions of the agency. In this year's essay we discuss a range of activities focusing on data-intensive antitrust cases in the hospital and consumer products industries. We also discuss our most recent work on gasoline pricing. Policy-focused research and competition advocacy takes center stage as we discuss some health care advocacy work in the administration of pharmaceutical insurance benefits and efforts to understand the real estate business more completely. Finally, we describe our efforts to quantify the extent of "identity theft”. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2006 antitrust nationallicence consumer protection nationallicence FTC nationallicence hospitals nationallicence identity theft nationallicence mergers nationallicence petroleum nationallicence pharmaceuticals nationallicence real estate nationallicence Salinger Michael Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., 20580, N.W. Washington, DC, U.S.A. aut Anderson Keith Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., 20580, N.W. Washington, DC, U.S.A. aut Garmon Christopher Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., 20580, N.W. Washington, DC, U.S.A. aut Schmidt David Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., 20580, N.W. Washington, DC, U.S.A. aut Yun John Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., 20580, N.W. Washington, DC, U.S.A. aut Review of Industrial Organization Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 29/4(2006-12-01), 327-348 0889-938X 29:4<327 2006 29 11151 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-006-9121-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-006-9121-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Salinger Michael Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., 20580, N.W. Washington, DC, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Anderson Keith Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., 20580, N.W. Washington, DC, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Garmon Christopher Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., 20580, N.W. Washington, DC, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schmidt David Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., 20580, N.W. Washington, DC, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yun John Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., 20580, N.W. Washington, DC, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Review of Industrial Organization Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 29/4(2006-12-01), 327-348 0889-938X 29:4<327 2006 29 11151 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer