Bureau of Economics: Speeches

Staff from the Bureau of Economics regularly make speeches, give presentations and publish materials related to the Federal Trade Commission's missions, and some of these are published below.

Materials on this page are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Speeches by Bureau of Economics Director
Michael R. Baye

• Antitrust Economics and Policy: Some Suggestions for Research Agendas
  Keynote address at the Research Symposium on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy,
  Northwestern University Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth,
  (September 26, 2008, Chicago, IL)
• Antitrust Economics at the FTC
  Before the USDA Packers and Stockyards Program National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN,
  September 17, 2008
• “Contests with Rank-Order Spillovers”
  Presented at the Venice Summer Institute 2008 Workshop on Advances in the Theory of Contests and its Applications,
  Venice International University, San Servolo,
  July 18 – 19, 2008
• Antitrust Contests
  Presented at a conference on Contests:  Theory and Applications,
  Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden,
  (June 13, 2008)
• Opening Remarks of Michael R. Baye
  Before the Consumer Information and the Mortage Market Conference,
  May 29, 2008
• Research Ideas in Antitrust and Consumer Protection: A View from the FTC
  Presentation before The 6th Annual International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Chief Economists Roundtable, Marymount University Ballston Center, Arlington, Va (May 18, 2008)
• Michael R. Baye's Interview with The Threshold,
  Michael R. Baye, Director, Bureau of Economics,
  Volume VIII Number 2, American Bar Association
  Spring 2008
• The Economics of Consumer Protection, Antitrust, and Policy
  Michael R. Baye, Director, Bureau of Economics
  Prepared speech before Bentley College
  Waltham, MA
  April 24, 2008
• Paper presented at Emory University
  Michael R. Baye, Director, Bureau of Economics,
  April 23, 2008
• Presentation at the Brussels Forum
  Sponsored by the Mentor Group, (Conrad Hotel)
  Brussels, Belgium
  April 8, 2008
• Prepared remarks before Penn State University
  Michael R. Baye, Director, Bureau of Economics,
  The Center for the Study of Auctions, Procurements and Competition Policy
  April 4, 2008
• Is There a Doctor in the House? The Value of Economic Expertise in Antitrust, Consumer Protection and Public Policy
  Michael R Baye, Director, Bureau of Economics,
  Prepared Remarks for "Breakfast with the Federal Trade Commission Bureau Directors," American Bar Association's 56th Antitrust Law Spring Meeting, Washington, DC
  March 28, 2008
• The Antitrust Source Interview
  Michael R. Baye, Director, Bureau of Economics
  ABA,
  February 5, 2008
• Market Defnition in Online Markets
  Michael R. Baye, Director, Bureau of Economics
  Presentation at a conference: Merger Analysis in High Technology Markets, sponsored by the George Mason University School of Law
  February 1, 2008
• Paper presented at the University of Louisville
  Michael R. Baye, Director, Bureau of Economics,
  University of Louisville
  November 28, 2007
• Paper presented at Temple University
  Michael R. Baye, Director, Bureau of Economics
  Fox School of Business
  November 1, 2007
• The Role of Economists in Antitrust: Getting the Most from Your Economic Expert
  Prepared Remarks before the Economics and Federal Civil Enforcement Committees of the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section Brownbag , Kirkland and Ellis, Washington, DC
  October 17, 2007
• FTC, Bureau of Economics Seminar,
  Michael R. Baye, Director, Bureau of Economics
  September 6, 2007
• Brand and Price Advertising in Online Markets
  Michael R. Baye, Director, Bureau of Economics
  University of Virginia, Department of Economics
  August 27, 2007

Speeches by Former Bureau of Economics Directors

• Jonathan Baker (April 1995 - December 1998)
  
  
• Jeremy I. Bulow (December 1998 - July 2001)
  
  
• David T. Scheffman (July 2001 - July 2003)
  
  
• Luke M. Froeb (July 2003 - June 2005)

• Michael A.Salinger (July 2005 - June 2007)