Contributions by Federal Trade Commission Economists to Consumer Protection: Research,Policy,and Law Enforcement

American Bar Association (1990 [1989]), “Section of Antitrust Law Special Committee to Study the Role of the Federal Trade Commission,” in Marketing and Advertising Regulation: The FTC in the 1990s, Murphy Patrick E. and Wilkie William L. , eds.Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press[originally published in Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report, 56 (1410, Special Supplement), S-1–S-53].

Anderson Keith (2004), “Consumer Fraud in the United States: An FTC Survey,”research report, (August), FTC, (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/consumer-fraud-united-statesftc-survey/040805confraudrpt.pdf].

Anderson Keith (2007), “Consumer Fraud in the United States: The Second Federal Trade Commission Survey,”research report, (October), FTC, (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/consumerfraud-united-states-second-federal-trade-commission-surveystaff-report-federal-trade/fraud.pdf].

Anderson Keith (2013), “Consumer Fraud in the United States, 2011: The Third FTC Survey,”research report, (April), FTC, (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/reports/consumer-fraud-united-states-2011-third-ftc-survey].

Beales J. Howard III , Salop Steven C. , and Craswell Richard (1981), “The Efficient Regulation of Consumer Information,”Journal of Law and Economics, 24 (3), 491–539.

Bond Ronald S. , Kwoka John E. Jr. , Phelan John J. , and Whitten Ira Taylor (1980), “Staff Report on Effects of Restrictions on Advertising and Commercial Practice in the Professions: The Case of Optometry,”research report, (September), FTC, (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/effects-restrictions-advertising-andcommercial-practice-professions-case-optometry/198009optometry.pdf].

Bryant W. Keith and Zick Cathleen D. (2006), The Economic Organization of the Household, 2nd ed.New York: Cambridge University Press.

Calfee John E. and Pappalardo Janis K. (1991), “Public Policy Issues in Health Claims for Foods,”Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 10 (Spring), 33–53.

Farrell Joseph , Pappalardo Janis K. , and Shelanski Howard (2010), “Economics at the FTC: Mergers, Dominant-Firm Conduct, and Consumer Behavior,”Review of Industrial Organization, 37 (4), 263–77.

Freeborn Beth A. , Smith Loren , and Nat Peter Vander (2012), “Section 319 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003: Fifth Interim Federal Trade Commission Report to Congress: A Report to Congress by the Federal Trade Commission,”report to Congress, FTC, (accessed September 24, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/section-319-fair-and-accurate-credit-transactions-act-2003-fifth-interim-federal-trade-commission/130211factareport.pdf].

Froeb Luke , Hosken Daniel , and Pappalardo Janis (2004), “Economics Research at the FTC: Information, Retrospectives, and Retailing,”Review of Industrial Organization, 25 (4), 353–74.

FTC (2006), “FTC Staff Comment Before the Food and Drug Administration in the Matter of Assessing Consumer Perceptions of Health Claims,”Docket No. 2005N-0413.

FTC (2007), “Credit-Based Insurance Scores: Impacts on Consumers of Automobile Insurance: A Report to Congress by the Federal Trade Commission,”report to Congress, (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/reports/credit-based-insurance-scores-impacts-consumers-automobileinsurance-report-congress-federal].

FTC (2014a), “Federal Trade Commission Fiscal Year 2015 Congressional Budget Justification,”report to Congress, (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/fy-2015-congressional-budget-justification/2015-cbj.pdf].

FTC (2014b), “In the Matter of Apple Inc., a Corporation,”Commission decision and order, (March 27), (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/112-3108/apple-inc].

Hobbs Caswell O. III (1990), “Kirkpatrick II: Views of a Member of the Special Committee,” in Marketing and Advertising Regulation: The FTC in the 1990s, Murphy Patrick E. and Wilkie William L. , eds. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 18–21.

Ippolito Pauline M. and Mathios Alan D. (1989), “Health Claims in Advertising and Labeling: A Study of the Cereal Market,”research report, FTC, (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/reports/health-claims-advertising-labeling-study-cereal-market].

Ippolito Pauline M. and Mathios Alan D. (1996), “Information and Advertising Policy: A Study of Fat and Cholesterol Consumption in the United States, 1977–1990,”research report, (September), FTC, (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/reports/information-advertising-policy-study-fat-cholesterol-consumption-united-states-1977-1990].

Ippolito Pauline M. and Pappalardo Janis K. (2002), “Advertising Nutrition & Health, Evidence from Food Advertising 1977-1997,”research report, (September), FTC, (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/reports/advertising-nutrition-health-evidence-food-advertising-1977-1997].

Ippolito Pauline M. and Scheffman David T. , eds. (1986), Empirical Approaches to Consumer Protection Economics: Proceedings of a Conference. Washington, DC: FTC.

Kirkpatrick Miles W. (1989), “Report of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law Special Committee to Study the Role of the Federal Trade Commission,”Antitrust Law Journal, 58 (1), 43–178.

Kwoka John E. Jr. (2005), “The Federal Trade Commission and the Professions: A Quarter Century of Accomplishments and Some New Challenges,”Antitrust Law Journal, 72 (3), 997–1012.

Lacko James M. (1986), “Product Quality and Information in the Used Car Market: A Bureau of Economics Staff Report,”research report, FTC, (accessed September 24, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/product-quality-information-used-car-market/231975.pdf].

Lacko James M. , McKernan Signe-Mary , and Hastak Manoj (2000), “Survey of Rent-to-Own Customers: A Bureau of Economics Staff Report,”research report, (April), FTC, (accessed September 24, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/reports/survey-rentown-customers].

Lacko James M. and Pappalardo Janis K. (2004), “The Effect of Mortgage Broker Compensation Disclosures on Consumers and Competition: A Controlled Experiment,”research report, (February), FTC, (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/reports/effect-mortgage-broker-compensation-disclosures-consumers-competition-controlled-experiment].

Lacko James M. and Pappalardo Janis K. (2007), “Improving Consumer Mortgage Disclosures: An Empirical Assessment of Current and Prototype Disclosure Forms: A Bureau of Economics Staff Report,”research report, (June), (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/reports/improving-consumer-mortgage-disclosures-empirical-assessment-current-prototype-disclosure].

Lynch Michael , Miller Ross , Plott Charles R. , and Porter Russle (1986), “Experimental Studies of Markets with Buyers Ignorant of Quality Before Purchase: When Do ‘Lemons’ Drive Out High Quality Products?”research report, (September), (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/reports/experimental-studies-markets-buyers-ignorant-quality-purchase-when-do-lemons-drive-out-high].

Mazis Michael , Staelin Richard , Beales Howard , and Salop Steven (1981), “A Framework for Evaluating Consumer Information Regulation,”Journal of Marketing, 45 (January), 11–21.

Murphy Dennis R. (2005), “Consumer Perceptions of Qualified Health Claims in Advertising,”working paper, FTC, (accessed September 24, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/reports/consumer-perceptions-qualified-health-claims-advertising].

Murphy Dennis R. , Hoppock Theodore H. , and Rusk Michelle K. (1998), “A Generic Copy Test of Food Health Claims in Advertising,”research report, (November), (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/reports/generic-copy-test-food-health-claims-advertising].

Murphy Patrick E. and Wilkie William L. , eds. (1990), Marketing and Advertising Regulation: The Federal Trade Commission in the 1990s. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.

O'Brien Daniel P. and Smith Doug (2014), “Privacy in Online Markets: A Welfare Analysis of Demand Rotations,”working paper, FTC.

Pappalardo Janis K. (1990), “Research Needs of the FTC in the 1990s: Voice of a Lone FTC Staff Economist,” in Marketing and Advertising Regulation: The Federal Trade Commission in the 1990s, Murphy Patrick E. and Wilkie William L. , eds. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 356–64.

Pappalardo Janis K. (2012), “Product Literacy and the Economics of Consumer Protection Policy,”Journal of Consumer Affairs, 46 (2), 319–32.

Pappalardo Janis K. and Ringold Debra J. (2000), “Regulating Commercial Speech in a Dynamic Environment: Forty Years of Margarine and Oil Advertising Before the NLEA,”Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 19 (Spring), 74–92.

Pautler Paul (2014), “A Brief History of the FTC's Bureau of Economics: Reports, Mergers, and Information,”Review of Industrial Organization, (published electronically August 2), [DOI: 10.1007/s11151-014-9430-3].

Scammon Debra L. (2014), “Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection, 1978–1979,”Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 33 (Fall), xxx–xxx.

Texas Department of Insurance (2004), “Use of Credit Information by Insurers in Texas: A Report to the 79th Legislature by the Texas Department of Insurance,”report to the 79th Legislature, Texas Department of Insurance.

Texas Department of Insurance (2005), “Use of Credit Information by Insurers in Texas: The Multivariate Analysis: A Supplemental Report to the 79th Legislature by the Texas Department of Insurance,”report to the 79th Legislature, Texas Department of Insurance.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1999), “Durk Pearson, et al. v. Donna E. Shalala, et al., No. 98-5034,” (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/D4A11CEA4DAACD5385256F15006C17EA$file/98-5043a.txt].

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2014), “Opinion of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Affirming Judgment of the United States District Court for the Central District of California,” (accessed September 11, 2014), [available at http://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/062-3201/burnlounge-inc].

Vander Nat Peter J. and Keep William W. (2002), “Marketing Fraud: An Approach for Differentiating Multilevel Marketing from Pyramid Schemes,”Journal of Consumer Affairs, 21 (1), 139–51.

Wilkie William L. (1990), “The FTC: An Institution or an Instrument?” in Marketing and Advertising Regulation: The Federal Trade Commission in the 1990s, Murphy Patrick E. and Wilkie William L. , eds. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 45–49.