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

B-Tier

Journal: Review of Industrial Organization

Year: 2014

Volume: 45

Issue: 4

Pages: 325-344

Authors (5)

Keith Brand (not in RePEc) Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon University) Patrick McAlvanah (Government of the United State...) David Schmidt (Government of the United State...) Elizabeth Schneirov (not in RePEc)

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0.402 = (α=2.01 / 5 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

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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

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

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