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United States District Court Northern District of Illinois Western Division Federal Trade Commission

Prepared Statement of M. Howard Morse before the Antitrust Modernization Commission Hearing on Antitrust and the New Economy

I am honored to have been asked to appear before the Antitrust Modernization Commission to address the “New Economy” issues that the Commission is studying. Many of you on the Commission are well versed in these issues based on you own experiences. I will offer my perspective today based on my ten years at the Federal Trade Commission, where I spent much of my time enforcing the antitrust laws ...

Behavioral Economics, Internet Search, and Antitrust

Google’s domination of online search in Europe and the United States has attracted antitrust scrutiny.1 The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “the commission”) recently concluded an investigation but declined to take major enforcement action, and investigation of the European Commission (“EC”) continues to drag on. These investigations covered a variety of allegedly anticompetitive behavior, s...

Agreements Filed with the Federal Trade Commission under the Medicare Prescription Drug , Improvement , and Modernization Act of 2003 Overview of Agreements Filed in FY 2011

Statement of the Federal Trade Commission Regarding Google’s Search Practices

The Federal Trade Commission has today completed a wide-ranging investigation of alleged anticompetitive conduct by Google Inc. (“Google”). We issue this Statement to explain the Commission’s unanimous decision to close the portion of its investigation relating to allegations that Google unfairly preferences its own content on the Google search results page and selectively demotes its competito...