Michael A. Salinger, Author at Truth on the Market

Michael A. Salinger

Michael A. Salinger is the Jacqueline J. and Arthur S. Bahr Professor of Management and professor of economics at the Boston University School of Management. He is also senior academic adviser with Charles River Associates.

From 2005 to 2007, he was director of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Economics. Prior to his tenure at Boston University, he was an associate professor at Columbia University Business School and a staff economist in the Bureau of Economics, as well as serving on the editorial boards of the Review of Industrial Organization and the Journal of Industrial Economics. He has also served as a managing director in LECG’s Cambridge office.

He received his bachelor's from Yale University and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Section 2 Symposium: Michael Salinger on Error Costs and the Case for Conduct-Specific Standards

Michael A. Salinger May 05, 2009

The source of much of the disagreement between the Antitrust Division and the FTC is based on chapter 3, which discusses general standards for Section 2 liability. A major portion of chapter 3 concerns whether there is a unifying principle underlying appropriate doctrine for all behavior challenged under Section 2. A substantial portion of the ... Section 2 Symposium: Michael Salinger on Error Costs and the Case for Conduct-Specific Standards

Section 2 Symposium: Michael Salinger on Framing the Debate

Michael A. Salinger May 04, 2009

Given the embarrassing outcome of the FTC/DOJ single-firm conduct hearings, it is worth revisiting what the organizers of the hearings were attempting to accomplish. The Federal Register notice announcing the hearings provides some key insights. It read, in part: The Agencies expect to focus on legal doctrines and jurisprudence, economic research, and business and consumer ... Section 2 Symposium: Michael Salinger on Framing the Debate

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