Single-Firm Conduct and Antitrust Law
June 2006 Agenda
The Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will cohost hearings on single-firm conduct and antitrust law beginning in June 2006. This page provides the June 2006 agenda.
For more information, consult the hearings information page or contact the Legal Policy Section at singlefirmconduct@usdoj.gov.
June 20: Welcome and Overview of Hearings
(2:00 PM to 4:00 PM)
- Thomas O. Barnett, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, Department of Justice
- Opening remarks: The Gales of Creative Destruction: The Need for Clear and Objective Standards for Enforcing Section 2 of the Sherman Act
- Presentation: Section 2 of the Sherman Act
- Deborah Platt Majoras, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
Dennis Carlton, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Biography)
- Herbert Hovenkamp, Ben V. & Dorothy Willie Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law (Biography)
Participant presentations and session transcript for June 20
June 22: Predatory Pricing
Morning Session: Selling
(9:30 AM - 12:00 PM)
- Patrick Bolton, Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia University Business School (Biography)
- Document: Predatory Pricing: Strategic Theory and Legal Policy
- Presentation: Predatory Pricing
- Kenneth G. Elzinga, Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics, University of Virginia (Biography)
- Statement
- Presentation: Predatory Pricing: The Elementary Economics
A. Douglas Melamed, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division (Biography)
- Janusz Ordover, Professor of Economics, New York University, and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division (Biography)
- Presentation: Predatory Pricing
Afternoon Session: Buying
(1:30 PM - 4:00 PM)
- Tim Brennan, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and 2006 T.D. MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics, Canadian Competition Bureau (Biography)
John Kirkwood, Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law, and former Assistant Director, Bureau of Competition, FTC (Biography)
- Janet L. McDavid, Hogan & Hartson LLP (Biography)
- Document: Antitrust Law Predatory Purchasing?
- Steven C. Salop, Professor of Economics and Law, Georgetown University Law Center (Biography)
- Presentation: Anticompetitive Overbuying
- Frederick R. Warren-Boulton, Principal, Microeconomic Consulting & Research Associates, Inc., and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division (Biography)
Participant presentations and session transcript for June 22