The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics, Northwestern Universitys Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth, and Northwestern Universitys Center for the Study of Industrial Organization will host a the third annual FTC and Northwestern Microeconomics Conference Nov. 18-19, 2010.
This two-day conference brings together scholars working in areas related to the FTCs antitrust, consumer protection and public policy missions. Those areas include industrial organization, information economics, game theory, quantitative marketing, consumer behavior, law and economics, behavioral and experimental economics. Relevant topics include advertising, information disclosure, mergers, vertical practices, mortgages and credit markets, bundling, loyalty discounts, dynamic demand estimation, business practices and consumer choice, intellectual property, optimal penalties, and cost-benefit analysis in law enforcement. Interested participants should send an abstract or completed paper to BE-IOC [at] ftc.gov by July 7, 2010. The organizers also welcome suggestions for panel discussions. mw
