Federal Reports

The mission of the FTC is to protect consumers by preventing anticompetitive, deceptive, and unfair business practices; enhancing informed consumer choices and public understanding of the competitive process; and accomplishing this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity. The Bureau of Economics (BE) performs research and analysis to determine economic impacts of FTC actions, as well as the impact of government regulation on competition and consumers. The FTC OIG performed this evaluation to determine whether BE optimizes its resources to accomplish its mission efficiently and effectively.

This report was originally issued as OIG-SBLF-14-002 on November 15, 2013. The report was withdrawn, revised, and reissued as OIG-SBLF-14-002R on June 26, 2015, to reflect changes made on pages 2, 13, and 14 of the report. The changes clarified the amount of administrative costs that were reviewed by the Office of Inspector General as part of a sample. The corrections did not affect the findings, conclusions, and recommendations as reported.

This is a reissued report. The original report number OIG-SBLF-14-013, dated August 29, 2014, was revised on June 26, 2015, to reflect changes made on pages 2, 3, 5, and 8. The changes correct the number and total dollar amount of State Small Business Credit Initiative obligated or spent loans we reviewed. These corrections do not affect the findings, conclusions, and recommendations as reported.