Inter-Agency Scuffling Over Section 2: What Role for Economists and Economics at the FTC and DOJ?

Joshua Wright September 12, 2008

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Much has already been written about the strained relationship between the FTC and DOJ in antitrust matters.  There is no more entertaining description of these strains than Chairman Kovacic’s description of the sister agencies as “an archipelago of policy makers with very inadequate ferry service between the islands” and “too many instances when you go to visit those islands the inhabitants come out with sticks and torches and try to chase you away.” It looks like the recent dust-up over the Section 2 Report is going to be the latest front in that matter.  Here’s the DOJ Report, the Statement from Commissioners Rosch, Leibowitz and Harbour, and from Chairman Kovacic.

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