Aviv Nevo

Aviv Nevo is Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics. He 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.

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

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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