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The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Consumer Regulation Outreach Group offers advice to Internet users on avoiding scams.
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This paper discusses complementarities and tensions between competition policies and consumer protection policies. The paper argues that markets will often supply adequate customer protection without the need for extra public intervention. Special areas where intervention might be needed are...
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Loza examines some 180 Internet fraud cases prosecuted by the Federal Trade Commission and the FTC's extensive range of … standards and means and instrumentality theory. Loza evaluates the use of technology as a means of committing online fraud …, including cybersquatting, mouse-trapping, steatlh windows, and more. Among the types of cases examined, Loza covers fraud as to …
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Strategic Concerns -- 2 The Extended Global Supply Chain: New Problems and New Responsibilities -- 3 Risky Business -- 4 Companies Behaving Badly -- 5 The SEAAR Movement -- 6 Who's in Charge Here? Organizational Responsibilities for an Ethical...
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that may aid consumers who contest an electronic transaction because of error, fraud, or merchant dispute. The first two …, debit cards, prepaid cards, and ACH e-checks. This third paper considers how protections related to fraud, error, and … encourage the adoption of fraud-reduction schemes, (ii) the current protections represent a significant cost to banks, merchants …
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<Para ID="Par1">We discuss in this essay three of the matters on which economists in the Bureau of Economics (BE) at the Federal Trade Commission have worked this past year. BE revisited familiar ground in the first matter, a proposed merger of office supply retailers. The second part of the essay considers...</para>
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Questions and answers regarding compliance with Regulation E.
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