William Oehmig
Associate Professor of Management
Owen Graduate School of
Management Phone: (615) 322-9057
Vanderbilt University Fax:
(615) 343-7177
401 21st Avenue South luke.froeb
at owen.vanderbilt.edu
Nashville, TN 37203
Stanford University, A.B. (1978), Economics, with honors and academic
distinction.
University of Wisconsin, Ph.D. (1983), Econometrics, passed with
distinction.
1993- Asst.(1993)/Assoc.(1998)/chaired(2000)
Professor of Management, Vanderbilt
University. Teach managerial
economics (textbook;
blog) to both MBA’s and executive
MBA’s, and assorted topics in non-degree programs.
2003-5 Director, Bureau of Economics, U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Managed 110 employees, including 75 PhD
economists who provided economic analysis to support enforcement of antitrust
and consumer protection laws. (talks)
1986-92 Economist, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice. Merger and price-fixing cases and policy:
litigation support; expert witness; data analysis; policy analysis. Work for Sentencing Commission.
1989 Kramer Foundation Fellow, University of Chicago Law School
1984-5 Asst.
Professor, Department of Economics, Tulane
University. Taught grad and
undergrad econometrics; grad industrial organization; undergrad micro
Price Discrimination Patent Damages
Vertical Restraints Miscellaneous
Doane, Michael J., Luke M. Froeb, and David Zimmer, and Gregory Werden, Pricing and Ownership Concentration: A New Estimation Strategy (April 4, 2012), available at SSRN.
Doane, Michael J., Froeb, Luke M. and Van Horn, R. Lawrence, How Well Do Travel Cost Models Measure Competition Among Hospitals? (September 16, 2011). Available at SSRN.
Kalnins, Arturs, Luke M. Froeb, and Steven T. Tschantz, Mergers Increase Output When Firms Compete by Managing Revenue. Available at SSRN.
Froeb, Luke M., Mikhael Shor, Steven Tschantz, Mergers
in Auctions with an Incumbent Advantage (September 2, 2008). Available at SSRN.
Tenn, Steven, Luke Froeb, and Steven Tschantz, Merger Effects When Firms Compete by Choosing Both Price and Promotion, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 28:6 (November 2010), Pages 695-707.
Werden, Gregory, Luke Froeb, and Steven Tschantz,
Incentive Contracts as Merger Remedies, (October 2005). Available at SSRN
Gandhi, Amit, Luke Froeb, Steven Tschantz, and
Gregory Werden, Post-Merger Product Repositioning, Journal of Industrial Economic, 41 (March, 2008) 49-67. Available at SSRN.
Froeb, Luke and Steven Tschantz, and Gregory Werden, Pass-Through Rates and the Price Effects of Mergers, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 23 (2005) 703-715. Available at SSRN.
Werden, Gregory J., Luke M. Froeb and Steven
Tschantz, The Effects of Merger Efficiencies on Consumers, European Competition Journal, 1:2 (October, 2005) 245-264. Available at SSRN.
Froeb, Luke, Steven Tschantz & Philip Crooke,
Bertrand Competition with Capacity Constraints: Mergers Among Parking Lots, Journal
of Econometrics 113(1) (March, 2003) 49-67.
Froeb, Luke and Steven Tschantz, How Much
Information is Required to Accurately Predict Merger Effects?, Owen Working
paper (6/01).
Froeb, Luke, and Gregory Werden, An
Introduction to the Symposium on the Use of Simulation in Applied Industrial
Organization, International Journal of the Economics of Business, 7(2)
(July, 2000) 133-137.
Crooke, Philip, Luke Froeb, Steven Tschantz, and
Gregory Werden The Effects of Assumed Demand Form on Simulated Post-Merger
Equilibria, Review of Industrial Organization, 15(3), (November, 1999)
pp. 205-217.
Werden, Gregory, and Luke Froeb, The
Entry-Inducing Effects of Horizontal Mergers, Journal of Industrial
Economics, 46:4 (1998) pp. 525-543.
Froeb, Luke and Gregory Werden, A Robust Test for
Consumer Welfare Enhancing Mergers Among Sellers of a Homogeneous
Product, Economics Letters, 58 (1998) pp.
267-269.
Werden, Gregory, Luke Froeb, and Timothy Tardiff,
The Use of the Logit Model in Applied
Industrial Organization, International Journal of the Economics of Business,
vol. 3, no. 1, (1996) pp. 85-107.
Werden, Gregory and Luke Froeb, The Effects of Mergers in Differentiated Products Industries: Logit Demand and Merger Policy, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 10 (1994) pp. 407-426, reprinted in Antitrust and Competition Policy (Andrew N. Kleit ed., 2005)
Froeb, Luke, Timothy Tardiff, and Gregory Werden,
The Demsetz Postulate and the Effects of Mergers in Differentiated Products
Industries, Economic Inputs, Legal Outputs: The Role of Economists in Modern
Antitrust, London: John Wiley & Sons, edited by Fred McChesney, 1998.
Werden, Gregory, and Luke Froeb, Simulation as an
Alternative to Structural Merger Policy in Differentiated Products Industries,
chapter 4 in The Economics of the
Antitrust Process, edited by Malcolm Coate and Andrew Kleit, Boston: Kluwer
Academic Press, 1996.
Froeb, Luke, Evaluating Mergers in Durable Goods
Industries, Antitrust Bulletin, 34 (Spring, 1989) 99-119.
Cooper, James, Luke Froeb, Daniel O'Brien and Steven Tschantz, Does Price Discrimination Intensify Competition? Implications for Antitrust, Antitrust Law Journal, 72:2 (2005) 327-374.
Abrantes-Metz, Rosa, Luke Froeb, John Geweke, Christopher Taylor, A Variance Screen for Collusion, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 24 (May, 2006) 467-486. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=683922
Froeb, Luke, Robert Koyak & Gregory Werden,
What is the Effect of Bid-Rigging on Prices?, Economics Letters, 42
(1993) pp. 419-423. link
Froeb, Luke, Steven Tschantz, and Gregory Werden, Vertical Restraints and the Effects of Upstream Horizontal Mergers, The Political Economy of Antitrust, Vivek Ghosal and Johann Stennek (Eds.), Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing, (2007) p. 369. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=917897
Cooper, James, Luke Froeb, Daniel O'Brien, and Michael Vita, Vertical Antitrust Policy as a Problem of Inference, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 23 (2005) 639–664. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=699601
§ Comment by John Comanor, Frederick Scherer, and Robert Steiner
§ Reply
§ Response by John Comanor, Frederick Scherer, and Robert Steiner
Cooper, James, Luke Froeb, Daniel O'Brien, and Michael Vita, A Comparative Study of United States and European Union Approaches to Vertical Policy, George Mason Law Review, 13:2 (Winter, 2005) 289-308. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=699582
Cooper, James, Luke Froeb, Daniel O'Brien, and Michael Vita, Vertical Restraints and Antitrust Policy: What about the Evidence? Competition Policy International, 1:2 (Autumn, 2005) 45-64. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=825089
§ Comment by Frederick Scherer (2005)
§ Comment by Ralph Winter (2005)
§ Reply by authors (2006)
§
Rejoinder by Ralph Winter (2006)
Froeb, Luke, Mikhael Shor, & Steven Tschantz, Mergers
in Auctions with an Incumbent Advantage: Owen Working paper (2008). Available
at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1262519
Froeb, Luke, and Steven Tschantz, Mergers Among Bidders with Correlated Values in Economic Issues in Measuring Market Power--Contributions to Economic Analysis, Vol. 255, edited by Daniel J. Slottje, Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing, 2002, pp. 31-46.
Brannman, Lance, and Luke Froeb, Mergers, Cartels,
Set-Asides and Bidding Preferences in Asymmetric Second-price Auctions, Review
of Economics and Statistics, 82(2) (2000) 283-290.
Tschantz, Steven, Philip Crooke, and Luke
Froeb, Mergers in Sealed vs. Oral Auctions, International Journal of the
Economics of Business, 7(2) (July, 2000) 201-213.
Froeb, Luke, Steven Tschantz & Philip Crooke,
Second-price Auctions with Power-related Distributions: Owen Working paper
(2001). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=261064
Froeb, Luke M.,
Tschantz, Steven T. and Crooke, Philip, "Mergers Among Asymmetric Bidders:
A Logit Second-Price Auction Model" (February 27, 1998). Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=69415
Ganglmair, Bernhard, Luke M. Froeb, and Werden, Gregory J., Patent Hold Up and Antitrust: How a Well-Intentioned Rule Could Retard Innovation, Journal of Industrial Economics (forthcoming). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1735587.
Froeb, Luke, and Bruce Kobayashi, Adversarial versus
Inquisitorial Justice, Procedural
Law And Economics, Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, vol. II, (edited by Chris William
Sanchirico, (Edward Elgar, 2012).
Froeb, Luke, and Bruce Kobayashi, Evidence Production in Adversarial vs. Inquisitorial Regimes, Economics Letters 70(2), (2001) pp. 267-272. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=179182
Froeb, Luke, and Bruce Kobayashi, Naive, Biased,
yet Bayesian: Can Juries interpret Selectively-Produced Evidence. Journal of
Law, Economics, & Organization, vol. 12, no. 1 (1996) 257-276;
reprinted in Economics of Evidence, Procedure and Litigation (edited by Chris W. Sanchirico, Edward Elgar, forthcoming).
Froeb, Luke, The Adverse Selection of Cases for
Trial, International Review of Law and Economics, 13(3), (June, 1993)
317-324
Werden, Gregory J., Luke M. Froeb, and James
Langenfeld, Lost Profits from Patent Infringement: The Simulation
Approach, International Journal of the Economics of Business, 7(2)
(July, 2000) 213-227.
Werden, Gregory J., Luke M. Froeb, and Lucian
Wayne Beavers, Economic Analysis of Lost Profits from Patent Infringement With
and Without Noninfringing Substitutes, American Intellectual Property Law
Association Quarterly Journal, 27 (1999) pp. 305-333. Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=205669
Werden, Gregory J., Lucian Wayne Beavers, and Luke
M. Froeb, Quantity Accretion--The Mirror Image of Price Erosion from Patent
Infringement, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, 81
(1999) pp. 479-482.
Froeb, Luke, An Innovation Variance Ratio Test,
Owen working Paper (1996)
Cooil, Bruce, and Luke Froeb, A Difference
Estimator for Testing Equality of Variances for Paired Time Series, Journal
of Time Series Analysis, 19(3) (May, 1998) pp. 285-290. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=981464
Froeb, Luke, & Robert Koyak, Measuring and
Comparing Smoothness in Time Series: The Production Smoothing Hypothesis, Journal
of Econometrics, 64 (1994) 97-122.
Werden, Gregory, and Luke Froeb, Correlation,
Causality, and all that Jazz: the Inherent Shortcomings of Price Tests for
Antitrust Market Delineation, Review of Industrial Organization, 8
(June, 1993) 329-354; reprinted in the Journal of Reprints for Antitrust Law
and Economics, 28(1) (1998) p. 175.
Froeb, Luke and Gregory Werden, The Reverse
Cellophane Fallacy in Market Delineation, Review of Industrial Organization,
7 (1992) 241-247.
Froeb, Luke and Gregory Werden, Residual Demand
Estimation for Market Delineation: Complications and Limitations, Review of
Industrial Organization, 6 (1991) 33-48, reprinted in the Journal of
Reprints for Antitrust Law and Economics, 28(1) (1998) p. 357.
Evans, William, Luke Froeb, and Gregory Werden,
Endogeneity in the Concentration-Price Relationship: Causes, Consequences, and
Cures, Journal of Industrial Economics, 41 (September, 1993) 1-8.
Amel, Dean, and Luke Froeb, Do Firms Differ Much?,
Journal of Industrial Economics, 39 (March, 1991) 23-31.
Froeb, Luke, and John Geweke, Long Run Competition
in the Post-war U.S. Aluminum Industry, International Journal of Industrial
Organization, 5 (1987) 67-78.
Werden, Gregory J. and Froeb, Luke M. Merger Strategies and Antitrust Concerns, Oxford Handbook in Managerial Economics, eds. William F. Shughart and Christopher R. Thomas, Oxford University Press, 2012.
Werden, Gregory J. and Froeb, Luke M. Choosing Among Tools for Assessing Unilateral Merger Effects. European Competition Journal 155 (2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=1804243
Werden,
Gregory J., Luke M. Froeb, and Mikhael Shor. Behavioral Antitrust and Merger Control, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical
Economics, (2011, Vol. 167, No. 1, pp. 126-142). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1612282
Doane, Michael, Luke Froeb, and Steven
Tschantz, WARNING: Improper Use of the New Horizontal Merger Guidelines
Can Result in Overly Narrow Markets, Mistaken Inferences of Market Power, and
Wrong-Headed Analyses. CPI
Antitrust Journal 10(2), (October 28, 2010). Available at: https://www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/continuity-and-change-in-the-2010-merger-guidelines/
Froeb, Luke, Paul Pautler, and
Lars-Hendrik Roeller, The
Economics of Organizing Economists, Antitrust Law Journal 76(2) (2009)
pp. 101-116. Available
at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1155237
Froeb, Luke, On Revising the Merger
Guidelines, Global
Competition Policy, (Oct., 2009). Available at http://www.globalcompetitionpolicy.org/index.php?&id=1926&action=907
Froeb, Luke, Pingping Shan, Reconciling the Conflicting Views of the DOJ
Report on Single-Firm Conduct, Global Competition Policy, (Oct., 2008). Available at http://www.globalcompetitionpolicy.org/index.php?&id=1412&oyxvzfvs=oyxvzfvs&action=907
Rosa Abrantes-Metz and Luke Froeb, The Agencies are Screening for Collusion:
What are they Likely to Find? ABA Newsletter (Spring, 2008). (link)
Werden, Gregory and Luke Froeb, Unilateral Competitive Effects of Horizontal
Mergers II: Auctions and Bargaining, Issues in Competition Law and Policy,
W. Dale Collins (ed.), ABA Section of Antitrust Law, 2008, vol. 2, 1343. Available
at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=956400
Werden, Gregory J., and Luke M. Froeb,
Unilateral Competitive Effects of Horizontal Mergers, in Handbook of
Antitrust Economics, Paolo Buccirossi (ed.), (Boston: MIT Press), 2007, pp.
43-104. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=927913
Auctions, Evidence, and Antitrust, in Econometrics: Legal Practical and Technical Issues, John Harkrider (ed.), ABA Section on Antitrust Law, 2005. (with Mikhael Shor).
Merger Simulation, in Econometrics: Legal, Practical, and Technical
Issues, John D. Harkrider (ed.), ABA Section of Antitrust Law, 2005, p. 269
(with Steven Tschantz and Gregory Werden).
Werden, Gregory, and Luke Froeb,
Antitrust, International Encyclopedia of
the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, Willam Darity (ed.), McMillan Reference
USA, forthcoming.
Froeb, Luke, and Paul Pautler, Consumer Protection, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, Willam Darity (ed.), McMillan Reference USA, forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=980781
Froeb, Luke, If Merger is the Answer, What is the
Question? M&A Journal. (March,
2006), reprinted in Owen Manager (2006)
and in Proceedings of the I Lisbon Conference on Competition Law and Economics (Kluwer Law International,
forthcoming).
Froeb, Luke, James Cooper, Mark Frankena, Paul
Pautler, and Louis Silvia, Economics at the FTC: Cases and Research with a
Focus on Petroleum, Review of Industrial Organization, 26 (2005) 1-30.
Froeb, Luke, Daniel Hosken, Janis Pappalardo,
Economics Research at the FTC: Information, Retrospectives, and Retailing, Review
of Industrial Organization, 25:4 (Dec., 2004) 353-374. Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=592101
Werden, Gregory J., Luke M. Froeb, and David T.
Scheffman, A Daubert Discipline for Merger Simulation, Antitrust,
18:3 (Summer, 2004) pp. 89-95.
Werden, Gregory J., Luke M. Froeb and David T.
Scheffman, Whither Merger Simulation?, Antitrust Source, (May, 2004).
Werden, Gregory, and Luke Froeb, The Antitrust
Logit Model For Predicting Unilateral Competitive Effects, Antitrust Law
Journal, 70(1), (2002).
Werden, Gregory, and Luke Froeb, Calibrated
Economic Models Add Focus, Accuracy, and Persuasiveness to Merger Analysis in
the Pros and Cons of Merger Control, edited by the Swedish Competition
Authority, Swedish Competition Authority, Stockholm, 2002. Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=354121
Froeb, Luke, Bid Rigging Against the Government, Owen
Manager, (Spring, 1994).
Froeb, Luke M. and Ward, James C., Teaching Managerial Economics with Problems Instead of Models (April 5, 2011). THE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK ON TEACHING AND LEARNING IN ECONOMICS, Gail Hoyt, KimMarie McGoldrick, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1803690
Froeb, Luke, and Brian McCann, Managerial Economics: A Problem-solving
Approach, 2nd Edition, (Cincinnati, Cengage/Southwestern, 2010).
Froeb, Luke, Review of “Economy of Grace” Journal
of Lutheran Ethics, vol. 29, July, 2006. (link)
Froeb, Luke, Book Review of Modern
Competitive Analysis by Sharon Oster, Managerial and Decision
Economics, 21:5 (July-Aug., 2000) pp. 209-210.
Crooke, Philip, Luke Froeb & Steven
Tschantz, Teaching MBA Students to Compete in Simulated Oligopoly Environments,
Interactive Learning, Vignettes from
America’s most Wired Campuses, edited by Donald Brown, (Anker Publishing:
Bolton, MA, 2000) pp. 141-143.
Crooke, Philip, Luke Froeb & Steven
Tschantz, Pedagogy using Mathematica through the Web ALN Magazine,
vol. 2:2, Oct., 1998. (link)
Froeb, Luke, Book Review of Business
Economics by Maria Moschandreas, Managerial and Decision Economics,
16:1 (Jan-Feb, 1995) pp. 93-94.
Froeb, Luke, Richard W. Oliver, and David
Weiskopf, Geographic Variation in Internet Connectivity, Papers &
Proceedings of the Twenty Ninth IEEE Hawaii International Conference on
Systems Sciences, vol. 29, 1996.
Crooke, Philip, Luke Froeb, and
Steven Tschantz, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Mathematica in Education and
Research, 8(1) (winter, 1999) pp. 17-23.
Crooke, Philip, Luke Froeb, and
Steven Tschantz, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Mathematica package
(1998).
Crooke, Philip, Luke Froeb, and
Steven Tschantz, SimMerger™, a Mathematica package that simulates the
effects of mergers, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice (1998).
Crooke, Philip, Luke Froeb &
Steven Tschantz, Simulate Mergers On-Line, Antitrust 11 (spring, 1997)
29. [GS 1]
Froeb, Luke, Log Spectral
Analysis: Variance Components in Asset Prices, in Computational Economics
and Finance: Modeling and Analysis with Mathematica, edited by Hal Varian
(TELOS, Springer-Verlag) 1996. [WS 5]
Froeb, Luke, and Gregory Werden,
Simulating Mergers among Noncooperative Oligopolists, in Computational
Economics and Finance: Modeling and Analysis with Mathematica, edited by
Hal Varian (TELOS, Springer-Verlag) 1996. [GS 20, WS 3, LN 3, WL 4]
Froeb, Luke, Click&Learn Regression, interactive software that teaches
regression analysis to lay persons (1993)
Jan, 2012 Horizontal
Merger Guidelines, Dallas Bar Association
June, 2011 Horizontal
Mergers, Advanced Policy Institute on Antitrust Economics, George Mason
University School of Law.
May, 2011 Third
Generation Price-Concentration Regressions, University of St. Gallen,
Switzerland.
May 2011 Choosing
Among Tools to Evaluate Mergers, University of Berne and Swiss Competition
Authority.
April 2011 How
Well Do Travel Cost Models Measure the Effects of Mergers Among Hospitals. International Industrial Organization
Confernce, Boston.
April 2011 Third
Generation Price-Concentration Regressions, University of Texas-Dallas.
Sept, 2010 Mergers
Increase Output when Firms Compete by Managing Revenue, Canadian Competition Bureau, Ottowa, Canada.
June, 2010 Behavioral
Antitrust and Merger Control,
Budapest, Hungary.
June, 2010 Antitrust
Developments, European Commission,
DG-Comp.
June, 2010 Antitrust
Developments, Office of Fair Trading, London.
Apr, 2009 Mergers
in Auctions with an Incumbent Advantage, IIOC annual meetings, Boston MA.
March, 2009 The
Competitive Effects of the Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger, testimony
before Congress.
Sept, 2008 The
past, present, and future of hospitals deals and antitrust, Heath care deal-making summit, Nashville,
TN.
July, 2008 How
to Measure the Welfare Effects of the FTC’s Competition and Consumer Protection
Efforts roundtable at hearings on
FTC at 100, Washington DC.
May, 2008 Mergers
among firms that manage revenue,
IIOC Conference, Arlington, VA
Feb, 2008 Horizontal
Mergers among IP Licensors and IP Licensees, George Mason University Conference
on High Tech Mergers.
Feb, 2008 The
limits of structural modeling, plenary talk, George Mason University Conference
on High Tech Mergers.
Apr, 2008 25th
Anniversary of AT&T Break-up, Panel Moderator, University of Pennsylvania
Law School.
Oct, 2007 Mergers among firms
that compete by choosing both price and promotion,
Competition Conference to celebrate inauguration of China’s new antitrust
law, Peking University, China.
June, 2007 Mergers among firms
that compete by choosing both price and promotion,
Industrial Organization Conference, Shanghai
China.
July, 2007 eCCP Roundtable: US Supreme Court Decisions: A Retrospective,
Washington, DC.
June, 2007 Antitrust Debate with
Marc Ivaldi,
Italian Competition Authority, Rome Italy.
June, 2007 Mergers among firms
that compete by choosing both price and promotion,
Asian Industrial Organization Conference, Shanghai
China.
Apr., 2007 Mergers among firms
that compete by choosing both price and promotion,
IIOC Annual Meeting, Savannah, Georgia
Apr., 2007 Mergers among firms
that compete by choosing both price and promotion,
Washington University
Mar., 2007 Challenges to Dominant
Firm Exclusionary Conduct,
2007 Antitrust Conference, The Conference Board,
New York
Mar., 2007 Mergers among firms
that compete by choosing both price and promotion,
Cornell University
Mar., 2007 Mergers among firms
that compete by choosing both price and promotion,
Vanderbilt University
Jan., 2007 Media Ownership,
NewsChannel5’s Openline, Nashville
Dec., 2006 Media Mergers, FCC
Hearings on Media Mergers
Nashville,
Tennessee
Sept., 2006 What do we know about single-firm conduct? (slides)
Joint FTC-DOJ
hearings on “Single Firm Conduct”
June, 2006 The Economics of Mergers (slides) and Monopolization (slides)
Office of Fair
Trading, London, UK
June, 2006 Managing Vertical Relationships, Fordham Competition Law
Institute,
Fordham Law School, New York
May, 2006 Health Care Competition: Emerging Antitrust Issues (slides)
AHIP &
AHLA Conference, Amelia Island, Florida
April, 2006 Post-Merger Product Repositioning (slides)
University of
Texas--Arlington
March, 2006 Merger Analysis, The Use of Economics in Competition Law,
BIICL Confernce, Brussels, Belgium
March, 2006 Article 82 and Section 2 (slides)
Freshfields,
Bruckhaus & Deringer seminar, Washington, DC
Dec, 2005 Evanston-Northwestern Hospital Merger Reconsidered
ABA Brown Bag
Discussion
Dec, 2005 A Positive Antitrust Enforcement Agenda (slides)
CEPR
Conference, Brussels, Belgium
Nov, 2005 If Merger is the Answer, What is the Question? (slides)
The First Lisbon Conference on Competition
Law and Economics, Portugal
Oct., 2005 If Merger is the Answer, What is the Question? (slides)
CFO
conference, Huntsville, Alabama
Aug, 2005 Health Care Competition: Can we make it work? (slides)
Health care
MBA Advisory Board, Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN
Aug, 2005 Health Care Competition: Can we make it work? (slides)
Breakfast
Roundtable Discussion, Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN
June, 2005 International Regulatory Risk (slides)
Pioneer
Investments, New Hampshire
June, 2005 Antitrust and Intellectual Property (slides)
ABA Antitrust
and Intellectual Property Conference, UC-Berkeley
June, 2005 Regulatory Risk (slides)
Legg-Mason
Conference, Nashville, TN
June, 2005 Merger Analysis (slides)
Bates-White
Conference, Washington, DC
May, 2005 Vertical Restraints, What Next? (slides)
LECG Panel,
Washington, DC
May, 2005 Vertical Restraints (slides)
AEI/Brookings
Joint Center Antitrust Program
May, 2005 Vertical Restraints (slides)
George Mason
Law School Bundling Roundtable
April, 2005 Post Merger Product Repositioning (slides)
International
Industrial Organization Conference
April, 2005 Breakfast with the Bureau Directors (slides)
ABA meetings,
Washington DC
April, 2005 Did the FTC Approve Too Many Oil Mergers? (slides)
ABA meetings,
Washington DC
March, 2005 Consumer Protection Economics (slides)
Colby College
March, 2005 International Antitrust (slides)
Vanderbilt
Development Economics graduate students
Feb, 2005 Critical Enforcement Issues
Roundtable
Discussion at Charles River Associates Annual Conference
Jan, 2005 Use of Economics in Competition Law (slides)
Keynote
speech, IBC Conference, Brussels
Dec, 2004 Competition Advocacy and Industry-Wide Antitrust at the FTC
(slides)
Office of Fair
Trading and Competition Commission, London,
Dec, 2004 Effects-Based Analysis:
Mergers and Vertical Restraints (slides)
British
Institute of International and Comparative Law, London
Dec, 2004 Antitrust Enforcement
R&D: Mergers and Vertical Restraints
(slides)
Kings College,
London
Dec, 2004 Vertical
Restraints: What about the Evidence?
(slides)
American Bar
Association, Fall Forum, Washington, DC
Nov, 2004 Demand-Pull Research
for Antitrust Policy (slides)
University of
Virginia, Dept. of Econ.
Nov, 2004 Post-Merger Product
Repositioning (slides)
University of
Virginia, Dept. of Econ
Oct, 2004 Quantitative Methods
in Merger Control (slides)
Summit at
Como: A Discussion of Competition
Policy, Law & Economics, Italy.
Oct, 2004 Vertical
Restraints: What about the Evidence?
(slides)
George Mason
University Law Review Program, Washington, DC
Sep, 2004 Enforcement R&D (slides)
EC/US
Bilateral Consultations, Brussels, Belgium.
Sep, 2004 Economics and
Antitrust: Enforcement R&D (slides)
Keynote Address at Annual Meeting of the European Association in Industrial
Economics (EARIE), Brandenberg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany
Jun, 2004 Post-Merger Product
Repositioning (slides)
University de
Toulouse, IDEI, Toulouse, France
Jun, 2004 Use of Economic
Evidence in Competition Cases (slides)
OECD
Roundtable, Paris, France
Apr, 2004 Variance and Smoothness Screens for Collusion (slides)
International
Industrial Organization Conference, Chicago, IL [GS 2]
Apr, 2004 Merger Effects, Promotion and Price (slides)
Duke
University, Durham, NC
Apr, 2004 Breakfast with the FTC Bureau Directors (slides)
American Bar
Association Spring Meeting, Washington, DC
Mar, 2004 Economic Analysis of Mergers:
Recent Developments (slides)
American Bar
Association Spring Meeting, Washington, DC
Mar, 2004 Economics in Antitrust: A
U.S. Perspective (slides)
The Office of
Fair Trading, London, UK
Mar, 2004 The View from Brussels and Washington
AEI-Brookings
Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Brussels
Mar, 2004 Economics in Antitrust: A
U.S. Perspective
European
Commission, Brussels
Mar, 2004 Economists, Damages, and Daubert Pitfalls
Utah State Bar
and Law and Economics Society, Salt Lake City
Mar, 2004 Unilateral Effects and Economic Models
2004 Antitrust
Conference: The Conference Board, NY.
Feb, 2004 Unilateral Effects and Economic Models
Charles River
Associates Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
Jan, 2004 Merger Effects When Firms Compete by Choosing Both Price and
Advertising,
FTC Bureau of
Economics Seminar
Jan, 2004 Whither Merger
Simulation
ABA Economics
Committee Brown Bag, Washington, DC
Dec, 2003 Using Structural
Models to Simulate IP Damages
ABA Antitrust & Intellectual Property Sections, Washington, DC
Nov, 2003 Mergers among Firms
that Practice Yield Management
INFORMS Annual
Meeting, Atlanta, GA
Nov, 2003 Price Discrimination
and Competition: Implications for
Antitrust
American Bar
Association Fall Forum, Washington, DC
Nov, 2003 Role of Expert
Economic Testimony in Antitrust Litigation
Committee on Antitrust and Trade Regulation of the Bar of the City of NY
Aug, 2003 Continuity in Economics at the FTC
ABA Antitrust
Brownbag
May, 2003 Merger Simulation and Market Delineation
Two-day
training seminar at the Canadian Competition Bureau, Ottawa
April, 2003 Merger Simulation and Market Delineation
Two-day
training seminar at the Office of Fair Trading, London
May, 2002 Quantitative Cost-Benefit analysis of Mergers
Three-day
training seminar Swedish Competition Authority, Stockholm
April, 2002
Vertical Restraints and Upstream
Horizontal Mergers: Does the retail
sector matter? University of Florida,
Gainesville
2009
Written Testimony of Luke Froeb before the House Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy on the Ticketmaster/Live Nation Proposed Merger.
2006
Brief of Amici Curiae Economists in Support of Petitioner, et al., Leegin. v. PSKS, 75 U.S.L.W. 3207 (U.S. Nov. 3, 2006) (No. 06-480) (On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit).
2006 Quadrennial Regulatory Review—Review of the Commission’s Broadcast Ownership Rules and Other Rules Adopted Pursuant to Section 202 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, MB Docket No. 06-121, Joint Declaration of Luke Froeb, Padmanabhan Srinagesh and Michael Williams in support of Comments of Hearts-Argyle Television, Inc.
Brief of Amici Curiae Economists in Support of Petitioner, et al., Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 74 U.S.L.W. 3517 (U.S. Apr. 6, 2006) (No. 05-1126) (On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit).
Brief of Amici Curiae Economists in Support of Petitioner, Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 74 U.S.L.W. 3517 (U.S. Apr. 6, 2006) (No. 05-1126) (brief in support of certiorari).
2005
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Contact Lenses
FTC Staff Comment to the Honorable Doug
Matayo Concerning Arkansas H.B. 2286 and the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers
Act and Contact Lens Rule (Oct. 2004) (V040026)
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Housing, Real Estate
FTC Staff and Department of Justice
Antitrust Division Comment to the Honorable Paul Kujawski Concerning Proposed
Massachusetts H.B. 180 to Authorize Non-Attorneys to Perform Certain Real
Estate Settlement Services (Oct. 2004) (V040025)
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Health Care, Pharmacy Benefit Managers
FTC Comment to the Honorable Greg
Aghazarian Concerning California A.B. 1960 Requiring Pharmacy Benefit Managers
to Make Specified Disclosures to “Purchasers” and “Prospective Purchasers”
Regarding Revenues and Drug Formularies (Sep. 2004) (V040027)
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Labeling, Food
FTC Staff Comment Before the Food and
Drug Administration Concerning Nutrient Claims (Jul. 2004) (V040020)
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Gasoline
FTC Staff Comment to the Honorable Gene
DeRossett Concerning Michigan H.B. 4757, the “Petroleum Marketing Stabilization
Act”(Jun. 2004) (V040019)
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Labeling, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices
FTC Staff Comment Before the Food and
Drug Administration Concerning Consumer-Directed Promotion (May
2004) (V040016)
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Labeling, Food
FTC Staff Comment Before the Food and
Drug Administration Concerning Food Labeling: Trans Fatty Acids in Nutrition
Labeling (Apr. 2004) (V030017)
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Health Care, Pharmaceuticals
FTC Staff Comment to the Honorable
Patrick C. Lynch and Honorably Juan M. Pichardo Concerning the Competitive
Effects of Rhode Island General Assembly Bills Containing Pharmaceutical
“Freedom of Choice” and “Any Willing Provider” Provisions (Apr.
2004) (V040013)
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Funeral Homes
FTC Staff Comment to the Honorable
Joanne C. Benson Concerning Maryland H.B. 795 Regarding Corporate Ownership of
Funeral Homes (Apr. 2004) (V040011)
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Internet Commerce, Contact Lenses
Possible Anticompetitive Barriers to E-Commerce: Contact Lenses: A Report
from the Staff of the Federal Trade Commission (Mar. 2004) (V040007)
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Internet Commerce, Alcohol
FTC Staff Comment to the Honorable
William Magee et al. Concerning New York A.B. 9560-A; S.B. 606-A; and S.B. 1192
to Allow Out-of State Vendors to Ship Wine Directly to New York Consumers (Mar.
2004) (V040012)
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Gasoline
FTC Staff Comment to the Honorable Les
Donovan Concerning Kansas H.R. 2330 Prohibiting a “Marketer” or “Retailer” From
Selling Motor Fuel Below Cost (Mar. 2004) (V040009)
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Gasoline
FTC Staff Comment to the Honorable
Demetrius C. Newton Concerning the Alabama Fuels Marketing Act (Jan.
2004) (V040005)
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Labeling, Food
FTC Staff Comment Before the Food and
Drug Administration Concerning Labeling: Health Claims; Dietary Guidance (Jan.
2004) (V040006)
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Commodity Future Exchanges
FTC Comment Before the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission Regarding the Application of U.S. Futures Exchange,
LLC for Contract Market Designation (Jan. 2004) (V040004)