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Bureau of Economics Reports: Major, published reports, usually containing original research and entailing a substantial commitment of resources, concerning an issue of current policy interest or of long term impact on Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission antitrust or consumer protection missions. Includes Bureau of Economics staff reports as well as FTC and staff reports produced jointly with other Commission Bureaus and Offices.

The more recent Economic Reports are offered in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

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Credit-Based Insurance Scores: Impacts on Consumers of Automobile Insurance: A Report to Congress By the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission

This study examines the effect of credit-based insurance scores on the price and availability of automobile insurance and the impact of such scores on racial and ethnic minority groups and on low

Children's Exposure to Television Advertising in 1977 and 2004: Information for the Obesity Debate: A Bureau of Economics Staff Report

Authors
Debra J. Holt, Pauline M. Ippolito, Debra M. Desrochers, Christopher R. Kelley

This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the amount and type of television advertising seen by children in 2004 and compares these results to similar studies conducted for the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade

Improving Consumer Mortgage Disclosures: An Empirical Assessment of Current and Prototype Disclosure Forms: A Bureau of Economics Staff Report

Authors
James M. Lacko, Janis K. Pappalardo

This study presents the results of 36 in-depth interviews with recent mortgage customers, and quantitative consumer testing with over 800 mortgage customers, that examined how consumers search for

The Effect of Mortgage Broker Compensation Disclosures on Consumers and Competition: A Controlled Experiment

Authors
James M. Lacko, Janis K. Pappalardo
This report presents the results of a study that uses a controlled experiment with over 500 recent mortgage customers to examine the mortgage broker compensation disclosure proposed by the Department