ANTITRUST DIVISION NAMES NEW DEPUTY ASSISTANT
              ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1996                        (202) 616-2771
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          ANTITRUST DIVISION NAMES NEW DEPUTY ASSISTANT
              ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS


     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of Justice's Antitrust
Division announced today the appointment of Northern Virginia
resident, Andrew Joskow, 38, as Deputy Assistant Attorney General
for economic analysis.

     Anne K. Bingaman, Assistant Attorney General in charge of
Antitrust Division, said that Joskow will be responsible for
supervising all economic analysis within the Division and
directing the Division's Economic Analysis Group.  Joskow will
provide advice on both merger and civil non-merger
investigations.

     "Dr. Joskow has considerable experience in the antitrust
field and has managed economic analysis within the Antitrust
Division for a number of years.  He has studied extensively
issues relating to regulated industries, including
telecommunications and aviation.  He also brings extensive
experience working on legislation to the job.  We are extremely
fortunate to have him as the new Deputy for Economics," said
Bingaman. 
     
     Joskow has been Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for
economic analysis since May 1996.  Prior to that he was Chief of
the Division's Economic Regulatory Section.  Joskow was also a
Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers
from 1991 to 1993, where he specialized in regulated industries.

     Joskow received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1984.  He
earned a B.A. degree in economics from Cornell University in
1979.

     Joskow and his wife Lisa Sockett, an attorney for the
Federal Communications Commission, live with their three month
old daughter Melissa in Arlington, Virginia.
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