Office of Policy Planning
Public Workshop:
Possible Anticompetitive Efforts to Restrict Competition on the Internet

Public and Panelist Comments

Auctions

Panelists
  • Wynn Arnold, Senior Assistant Attorney General, New Hamphsire
  • Lawrence Ausubel, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
  • Tod Cohen, Associate General Counsel, Global Policy,  eBay
  • Robert Hamilton, Executive Director, North Carolina Auctioneer Licensing Board
  • Larry Theurer, President, National Auctioneer Association
  • Norman Willoughby, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Illinois Office of Banks and Real Estate

Automobiles

Public

Panelists
  • Mark Cooper, Research Director, Consumer Federation of America
  • James Lust, Chairman, Lust Chervrolet-Buick (former President of the National Automobile Dealers Association)
  • Fiona Scott Morton, Associate Professor of Private Enterprise and Management, Yale University
  • Scott Painter, Chairman, Built-to-Order, Inc.
  • John Whatley, Vice-President and General Counsel, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
  • Bill Wolters, Executive Vice-President, Texas Automobile Dealers Association

Caskets/Funerals

Panelists

Contact Lenses

Public

Panelists

Cyber-Charter Schools

Panelists
  • John Bailey, Director of the Office of Educational Technology, Department of Education
  • Sue Collins, Chief Education Officer, Apex Learning
  • Checker Finn, President, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
  • Tom Gentzel, Executive Director, Pennsylvania School Boards Association
  • Ron Packard, CEO and Founder, K12
  • Hon. Charles Zogby, Secretary of Education, Pennsylvania

General

Public

Panelists

  • Chairman Timothy J. Muris
  • Commissioner Thomas B. Leary
  • Commissioner Sheila F. Anthony
  • Ted Cruz, Director, Office of Policy Planning
  • Representative Cliff Stearns, Chairman, U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection
  • Dr. Randall Kroszner, Member, White House Council of Economic Advisers
  • Jeff Jordan, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, eBay Inc.
  • John A. Schall, National Business Coalition on E-Commerce and Privacy

Industry Perspectives

Panelists

Legal and Economic Perspectives

Public

Panelists

  • Robert Atkinson ,Vice-President and Director of Technology and the New Economy Project, Progressive Policy Institute
  • Clint Bolick, Vice-President and National Director of State Chapters, Institute for Justice
  • Steven Calkins, Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School
  • Hon. Howard Metzenbaum, Chairman, Consumer Federation of America
  • Robert Gertner, Professor of Economics and Strategy, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business

Online Legal Services

Panelists

Real Estate / Mortgages / Financial Services

Panelists

Retailing

Panelists

Telemedicine and Online Pharmaceutical Sales

Public

Panelists

Views of the States

Panelists

Wine Sales

Public

Panelists
  • Tracy Genesen, Legal Director, Coalition for Free Trade
  • Hon. C. Boyden Gray, Outside Counsel, Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc.
  • M. Craig Wolf, General Counsel, Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc.
  • Steve Gross, Director of State Relations, Wine Institute
  • William H. Hurd, State Solicitor, Office of the Attorney General, Virginia
  • Dan McFadden, Professor of Economics, Nobel Laureate in Economics, University of California at Berkeley
  • Irene Mead, Assistant Attorney General, Head of Michigan's Liquor Control Division
  • Murphy Painter, President, National Conference of State Liquor Administrators
  • David Sloane, President, American Vintners Association