Speeches, Articles, and Statements by

William E. Kovacic, Commissioner

Chairman (2008-2009)

Commissioner (2006-2008)

General Counsel (2001-2004)

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2009

• Statement Submitted for the Record by Commissioner William E. Kovacic on the Proposal to Create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency
  to the Committee on Energy & Commerce and the Committee on Financial Services
  U.S. House of Representatives
  July 28, 2009
• Competition Policy and International Trade Liberalisation:  Essential Complements to Ensure Good Performance in Public Procurement Markets (with Robert D. Anderson)
  18 Public Procurement Law Review (2009)
• Assessing the Quality of Competition Policy: The Case of Horizontal Merger Enforcement
  5 Competition Policy International 129 (2009)
• The Future of U.S. Competition Policy at Home and Abroad
  Competition Law Association, London, England
  March 23, 2009
• Engineering the Competition Agency of the Future:  Perspectives from the FTC Self Study
  Office of Fair Trading, London, England 
  March 4, 2009
• Rating the Competition Agencies:  What Constitutes Good Performance?
  Kings College, London, England 
  March 4, 2009
• Competition Policy in the EU and the US: Convergence or Divergence?
  FIDE, Madrid, Spain
  February 17, 2009
• Energy and Competition Policy in United States
  CNE, Madrid, Spain
  February 17, 2009
• The Continuing Pursuit of Better Practices: Perspectives from the FTC Self-Study
  CNE, Madrid, Spain
  February 17, 2009
• Engineering the Competition Agency of the Future: Perspectives from the FTC Self-Study
  ICN Agency Effectiveness Workshop
  Brussels
  January 23, 2009
• The Federal Trade Commission at 100:  Into Our Second Century
  The Continuing Pursuit of Better Practices:  A Report by Federal Trade Commission Chairman William E. Kovacic
  January 2009

2008

• Interview with William E. Kovacic, Chairman
  C-SPAN
  October 18, 2008
• The United States and the Future Development of Global Competition Policy
  Georgetown Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium
  Washington, D.C.
  September 23, 2008
• "Rating the Competition Agencies: What Is Good Performance?”
  CBA Competition Law Conference
  September 18, 2008
• Interview
  Concurrences, Revue des droits de la concurrence
  No. 3 (2008)
• Review of Antitrust Stories (E. Fox and D. Crane, Eds.)
  4 Competition Policy International 241
  2008
• Interview with William E. Kovacic, Chairman
  Federal Trade Commission
  The Antitrust Source
  August 8, 2008
• The Federal Trade Commission at 100:  Into Our Second Century
  21st Annual Western Conference of the Rutgers University Center for Research in Regulated Industries
  Monterey, California
  June 18, 2008
• Competition Policy in the European Union and the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
  Bates White Fifth Annual Antitrust Conference
  Washington, D.C.
  June 2, 2008
• Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue
  Chairman William E. Kovacic, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
  Washington, DC
  April 7, 2008

2007

• Competition Policy, Consumer Protection, and Economic Disadvantage
  25 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 101
  2007
• Lucky Trip? Perspectives From A Foreign Advisor On Competition Policy, Development and Technical Assistance
  3 European Competition Journal 319
  December 2007
• Market Forces, Competitive Dynamics, and Gasoline Prices: FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
  Prepared Statement of the FTC before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives
  May 22, 2007
  
• Statement of Commissioner William E. Kovacic, with whom Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras and Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch Join, In the Matter of Lockheed Martin Corporation, The Boeing Company, and United Launch Alliance, L.L.C., FTC File No. 051 0165, Docket No. C-4188
  May 8, 2007
• Recent Competition Policy Initiatives Concerning the Energy Industry
  Opening Statement before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  United States Senate
  April 10, 2007
• The Importance of History to the Design of Competition Policy Strategy: The Federal Trade Commission and Intellectual Property
  30 Seattle L. Rev. 319
  2007
• The Intellectual DNA of Modern U.S. Competition Law for Dominant Firm Conduct: The Chicago/Harvard Double Helix
  Columbia Bus. L. Rev. 1
  2007

2006

• The Antitrust Legacy of the Rehnquist-O’Connor Court
  Roundtable Dicussion
  Antitrust, Vol. 20, No. 3
  Summer 2006
• Antitrust in the O’Connor-Rehnquist Era: A View from Inside the Supreme Court
  Antitrust, Vol. 20, No. 3
  Summer 2006
• FTC Jurisdiction Over Broadband Internet Access Services
  Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate
  June 14, 2006
• Petroleum Industry Consolidation
  Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate.
  February 1, 2006
• Statement of Chairman Majoras, Commissioner Kovacic, and Commissioner Rosch concerning the closing of the investigation into Transactions Involving Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Adelphia Communications
  January 31, 2006
• Using Ex Post Evaluations to Improve the Performance of Competition Policy Authorities
  31 J. Corportation L. 503
  2006
• The Impact of Leniency and Whistle-Blowing Programs on Cartels (with Cécile Aubert and Partick Rey)
  24 International J. Industrial Organization 1241
  2006
• Ernest Gellhorn: An Appreciation
  30 George Mason L. Rev. 1189
  2006

2004

• The Future of U.S. Competition Policy
  Antitrust Source
  September 2004
• Market Forces, Anticompetitive Activity, and Gasoline Prices: FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
  Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives Hearing on Status of U.S. Refining Industry
  July 15, 2004
• Market Forces, Anticompetitive Activity, and Gasoline Prices: FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
  Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs, Committee on Government Reform, United States House of Representatives
  July 7, 2004
  
• Achieving Better Practices in the Design of Competition Policy Institutions
  Remarks before the Seoul Competition Forum 2004, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  April 20, 2004
• Market Forces, Anticompetitive Activity and Gasoline Prices – FTC Initiatives to Protect Competitive Markets
  Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, United States Senate
  April 7, 2004 (Appendices A) (Appendices B)
  
• Interview with William E. Kovacic, General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission
  Antitrust Source
  January 2004

2003

• Private Participation in the Enforcement of Public Competition Laws
  British Institution of International & Comparative Law, Third Annual Conference on International and Comparative Competition Law: The Transatlantic Antitrust Dialogue, London
  May 15, 2003
• Toward a Domestic Competition Network
  American Enterprise Institute Conference on "The New Antitrust Paradox: Policy Proliferation in the Global Economy,"
  Washington, D.C.
  April 21, 2003
• Extraterritoriality, Institutions, and Convergence in International Competition Policy
  A Paper Based Upon A Presentation Given At The Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C.
  April 5, 2003.
• The Modern Evolution of U.S. Competition Policy Enforcement Norms
  71 Antitrust L. J. 377
  2003

2002

• Factors that May Affect Gasoline Prices
  Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs
  United States House of Representatives
  April 23, 2002
• Institutional Foundations for Economic Legal Reform in Transition Economies: The Case of Competition Policy and Antitrust Enforcement
  77 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 265
  2002

1995

• Analytical Approaches and Institutional Processes for Implementing Competition Policy Reforms by the Federal Trade Commission (with Ernest Gellhorn)
  Prepared by Professors Gellhorn and Kovacic for the session on "What Institutional Processes Will Help the FTC To Attain Its Goals?" as part of the Federal Trade Commission's Hearings on the Changing Nature of Competition in a Global and Innovation-Driven Age.
  Dec. 12, 1995