~ FTC CFP 9th Annual Microecon Conference

Ninth Annual Federal Trade Commission Microeconomics Conference

NOV 3, 2016 to NOV 4, 2016

CONSTITUTION CENTER400 7th St SW, Washington, DC 20024 | Directions & Nearby

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• Bureau of Economics

EVENT DESCRIPTION

The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics will host a two-day conference to bring together scholars working in areas related to the FTC’s antitrust, consumer protection, and public policy missions.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The FTC will accept submissions of abstracts or completed papers at BE-Micro@ftc.gov(link sends e-mail)until July 1, 2016. Preference will be given to completed papers that relate to the FTC’s missions, in fields including industrial organization, quantitative marketing, health policy, and behavioral economics. Examples of potentially relevant topics include healthcare provider competition, vertical contracting, advertising, merger policy, innovation, privacy, intellectual property, bargaining, collusion, e-commerce, demand estimation, pharmaceutical markets, appropriate statistical standards for inference, and consumer decision-making.

The scientific committee for the conference is:

• Leslie Marx (Duke University, Fuqua)
• Chad Syverson (University of Chicago, Booth)
• Florian Zettelmeyer (Northwestern University, Kellogg)

Organizers: Nathan Wilson (FTC) and Ted Rosenbaum (FTC)

The conference program will run from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 3, and 9:00 a.m. to 1:10 p.m. on Friday, November 4. Registration opens at 8:30 a.m.

SPONSORS

This conference is sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics and Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. The FTC conference organizers are Nathan Wilson and Ted Rosenbaum.