Participation and losses in <scp>multi‐level</scp> marketing: Evidence from a Federal Trade Commission settlement

Federal Trade Commission

1 Settlement in this matter precludes the possibility of a litigated record. Thus, the Commission’s understanding of the facts as set forth in this Analysis is based on the record developed during staff’s investigation. The Commission has decided to include discussion of the relevant parts of the investigatory record to provide the best guidance it can on the scope of the state action defense a...

Marketing Perspectives on Federal Communications Commission Policies

The author briefly critiques Federal Communications Commission policies and legislative actions as reported by Sappington and Stockdale (2003) and then provides some insights from a marketing science perspective. The author questions whether competition created through regulation produces the same benefits as natural competition and argues that when natural competition fails to produce desired ...

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...

United States of America before Federal Trade Commission.

Television food marketing to children revisited: the Federal Trade Commission has the constitutional and statutory authority to regulate.

The evidence reveals that young children are targeted by food and beverage advertisers but are unable to comprehend the commercial context and persuasive intent of marketing. Although the First Amendment protects commercial speech, it does not protect deceptive and misleading speech for profit. Marketing directed at children may fall into this category of unprotected speech. Further, children d...