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Gregory J. Werden

Gregory J. Werden is a visiting scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, which he joined in November 2022. Werden earned a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Wisconsin before beginning work at the U.S. Justice Department's (DOJ) Antitrust Division. At the DOJ, he helped prepare numerous sets of enforcement guidelines and more than 100 briefs filed in the appellate courts or the U.S. Supreme Court.

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The FTC Lacks Authority for Competition Rulemaking

Gregory J. Werden Sep 12, 2023

Before becoming chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Lina Khan advocated the use of rulemakings to implement the prohibition on unfair methods of competition (UMC) in Section 5 of the FTC Act. As chair, she proposed a rule, which likely will be finalized in the spring, to ban noncompete clauses in employment contracts. But ... The FTC Lacks Authority for Competition Rulemaking

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Werden and Froeb: The Conspicuous Silences of the Proposed Vertical Merger Guidelines

Gregory J. Werden & Luke M. Froeb Feb 06, 2020

[TOTM: The following is part of a symposium by TOTM guests and authors on the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines. The entire series of posts is available here.] This post is authored by Gregory J. Werden (former Senior Economic Counsel, DOJ Antitrust Division (ret.)) and Luke M. Froeb (William C. Oehmig Chair in Free Enterprise and ... Werden and Froeb: The Conspicuous Silences of the Proposed Vertical Merger Guidelines

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