A Call for Information
I’d like to ask the economists and other academics in the audience if they know anything about Dr. Michael Salinger, a Boston University professor who today was named the Federal Trade Commission’s chief economist. Here is Salinger’s bio in the FTC’s announcement:
Salinger is a Professor of Economics at the Boston University School of Management, where he has served as Chairman of the Department of Finance and Economics. Prior to joining Boston University in 1990, he was an associate professor at Columbia University Business School. From 1985 to 1986, he was a staff economist in the Bureau of Economics. Salinger has published extensively in areas of interest to the Commission’s mission, including the competitive effects of tying and of vertical mergers, the structural determinants of market power, and the statistical properties of firm growth. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Industrial Economics and the Review of Industrial Organization. He has been a consultant for the FTC, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Australian Competition and Commerce Commission, and private clients. Salinger has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an undergraduate degree from Yale University.I encourage anyone with knowledge of Salinger’s antitrust work to leave a comment here or e-mail me at smoliva-at-voluntarytrade-dot-org.
