Meet the Economists

Charles S. Taragin
Principal Economist
Financial Structure Section
Research and Statistics
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Education
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, 2007
Principal Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2022 - presentEconomist
Federal Trade Commission
2019 - 2022Economist
Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
2007 - 2019
- Consequences of Model Choice in Predicting Horizontal Merger Effects
Matthew Panhans and Charles Taragin
FTC Working Paper (2022) - Simulating Mergers in a Vertical Supply Chain with Bargaining
Gloria Sheu and Charles Taragin
RAND Journal of Economics (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12385 - Economics at the Antitrust Division: 2017–2018
Luke M. Froeb, Russell W. Pittman, Charles S. Taragin, Steven Tschantz, and Gregory J. Werden
Review of Industrial Organization (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-018-9663-7 - The simple algebra of surplus in private values open auctions: A nested logit merger model
Luke M. Froeb, Vladimir Mares, Steven Tschantz, and Charles Taragin
Economics Bulletin (2018) - Competition and Price Discrimination in the Market for Mailing Lists
Ron Borzekowski, Raphael Thomadsen, and Charles Taragin
Quantitative Marketing and Economics (2009)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11129-009-9050-7
See also » FRB Working Paper (2005)
Last update:
October 3, 2022