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Aviv Nevo

Aviv Nevo is the George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with appointments at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and the Department of Economics, as well as director of the Competition and Policy Initiative. Before that, Nevo was a professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University and served as deputy assistant attorney general for Economic Analysis in the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. Prior to that, he also taught at the University of California at Berkeley. He has also served as the director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics.
Antitrust and Competition

What Is the Role of Economics in Conservative Antitrust?

Aviv Nevo
The policies of conservative antitrust laid out by the new antitrust enforcers suggest a continued focus on the welfare of consumers and workers. This suggests a continued role for economics in shaping and advancing antitrust policy. However, Aviv Nevo writes, it is not clear from the actual actions taken by the antitrust agencies that economics, rather than political considerations, will be guiding antitrust policy.
Antitrust and Competition

DOJ and FTC Chief Economists Explain the Changes to the 2023 Merger Guidelines

Susan Athey
The Department of Justice Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission released their completed version of the new 2023 Merger Guidelines. Susan Athey, Chief Economist for the DOJ Antitrust Division, and Aviv Nevo, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics, explain how the revised document addresses the comments they received on the Draft Merger Guidelines that were expressed in ProMarket and elsewhere.

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