On September 9, the Federal Trade Commission announced that
Martin Gaynor will serve as Director of the FTC's Bureau of
Economics starting October 1. He joins the agency from Carnegie
Mellon University, where he was a professor of economics and public
policy. Gaynor has an extensive publication and teaching background
and has received numerous awards for research in health care
economics. He earned doctoral and master's degrees in economics
from Northwestern University. Gaynor replaces Howard Shelanski, who
left the FTC in July to become the Administrator of the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and
Budget.
In his writings, Gaynor has emphasized that competition and
antitrust enforcement are critical components of health care policy
in the United States. He has also focused on the importance of
quality in assessing the performance of health care markets. Gaynor
is interested in the rapidly growing empirical literature
