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# FTC to Examine Marketing and Consumer Protection at Conference on Sept. 16
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/ftc-to-examine-marketing-and-consumer-protection-at-conference-on-sept-16/
- Published: 2016-09-05T17:08:38.000Z
- Updated: 2016-09-15T19:03:42.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: News, #Import 2026-10-08 18:47

**The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics** has announced the agenda and panelists for its Economic Conference on Marketing and Consumer Protection in Washington, D.C., on September 16, co-sponsored by the INFORMS Society of Marketing Science.

**Ginger Jin**, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics, will give opening remarks at the event, which will help marketing scholars learn about the FTC’s consumer protection work, promote potentially high-impact research in consumer protection and regulation, and introduce FTC economists to some of the cutting-edge research being conducted by marketing scholars.

The goal of the conference is to promote an intellectual dialogue between marketing scholars and FTC economists. Specifically, the conference will serve as a vehicle for marketing scholars to learn about the FTC’s practice in consumer protection, promoting potentially high-impact research in the area of consumer protection and regulation, and introducing FTC economists to some of the cutting-edge research being conducted by marketing scholars.

The scientific committee for this conference consists of:

- **K. Sudhir**, Editor-in-Chief, Marketing Science and Professor of Marketing, Yale School of Management;
- **Avi Goldfarb**, Senior Editor, Marketing Science and Professor of Marketing, University of Toronto;
- **Ganesh Iyer**, Senior Editor, Marketing Science and Professor of Marketing, University of California, Berkeley;
- Ginger Jin, Director, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics and Professor of Economics, University of Maryland; and
- Andrew Stivers, Deputy Director, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics.

The conference will run from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. in the FTC 5th Floor Conference Room at Constitution Center, 400 7th St., SW, Washington, D.C. Pre-registration for the conference is necessary. To pre-register, send your name, affiliation, to [marketingconf@ftc.gov](mailto:marketingconf@ftc.gov).

The agenda, and other detailed information about the conference, can be found on the [event webpage](https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/2016/09/marketing-science-federal-trade-commission-conference-marketing?ref=capitolcommunicator.com).