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Indicator: Key Measure 2.3.2
[Quantitative::Output]
Measurements in/of Reports and studies issued on key competition-related topics.
Relationships:
Other Information:
PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS Studying and issuing reports on the nation’s crucial economic sectors is a key component of the FTC’s
competition related strategic objective. During FY 2010, the agency issued a seminal report on how pay-for-delay agreements
in the pharmaceutical industry are costing U.S. consumers billions of dollars every year. Pay-for-delay is a type of anticompetitive
patent settlement in which brandname pharmaceutical companies delay generic competition that lowers prices by agreeing to
pay a generic competitor to hold its competing product off the market for a certain period of time. In addition, the FTC issued
its fifth annual “Federal Trade Commission Report on Ethanol Market Concentration” on the state of ethanol production in the
U.S., and the semiannual reports on oil and gas activities.
| Type |
Target |
Actual |
Target |
Actual |
Target |
Actual |
Target |
Actual |
Target |
Actual |
Target |
Target |
| StartDate |
2005-10-01 |
2005-10-01 |
2006-10-01 |
2006-10-01 |
2007-10-01 |
2007-10-01 |
2008-10-01 |
2008-10-01 |
2009-10-01 |
2009-10-01 |
2010-10-01 |
2011-10-01 |
| EndDate |
2006-09-30 |
2006-09-30 |
2007-09-30 |
2007-09-30 |
2008-09-30 |
2008-09-30 |
2009-09-30 |
2009-09-30 |
2010-09-30 |
2010-09-30 |
2011-09-30 |
2012-09-30 |
| Reports and Studies |
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8 |
18 |
8 |
7 |
8 |
20 |
8 |
9 |
8 |
8 |
| Description |
n/a |
n/a |
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8 reports and studies |
Target exceeded. In FY 2010, the FTC issued a total of nine reports on competition-related matters, thus exceeding the annual
target. The reports addressed topics such as pay-for-delay agreements, ethanol market concentration, and oil and gas activities.
Data Source: Information on studies and reports on significant competition-related issues is taken from the FTC website (www.FTC.gov/be/research.shtm
and www.FTC.gov/reports/index.shtm)
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