Description
Industrial Organization is a large, responsive, and policy-relevant field of economics. Always active both theoretically and, especially during the past couple of decades, empirically, the field’s methods and practitioners have considerable influence on antitrust and regulation policy, and data-intensive managerial practices in many industries. The field also has substantial influence and growing overlaps with other fields of economics, including development, macro, and corporate finance.
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| Scaling Up Industrial Organization | |
Associated Scholars
UChicago Scholar
Milena Almagro
Assistant Professor of Economics, Liew Family Junior Faculty Fellow, George G. Rinder Faculty Fellow, Chicago Booth
UChicago Scholar
Eric Budish
Paul G. McDermott Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship and Centel Foundation/Robert P. Reuss Faculty Scholar, Booth School of Business
Thomas Covert
Assistant Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business
UChicago Scholar
Jean-Pierre Dubé
James M. Kilts Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar, Booth School of Business
Daniel Fox
B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from Brigham Young University, Faculty Supervisor: Greg Kaplan
UChicago Scholar
Gunter J. Hitsch
Kilts Family Professor of Marketing, Chicago Booth, Co-Director of BFI Industrial Organization Initiative
UChicago Scholar
Ali Hortaçsu
Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor of Economics, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Co-Director of BFI Industrial Organization Initiative
UChicago Scholar
Sanjog Misra
Charles H. Kellstadt Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing and Applied AI, Chicago Booth
UChicago Scholar
Chad Syverson
George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor, Booth School of Business, Deputy Director, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Associated Research
BFI Working Paper·May 18, 2026
Proposed Mergers Where Efficiencies Are Needed Most Might Be the Least Likely to Deliver Them
Topics:
Industrial Organization
BFI Working Paper·Mar 31, 2026
Salience and (Non-)Buyer’s Remorse: Optimal Nonlinear Pricing with Cognitively Constrained Consumers
Topics:
Industrial Organization
Associated Past Events
Academic Conferences·Mar 20, 2026, 9:00 AM·University of Chicago | David Rubenstein Forum | Room 504 | 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
2026 IOG Spring Conference
Academic Conferences·Oct 3, 2025, 9:00 AM·University of Chicago | David Rubenstein Forum | Room 504 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
2025 IOG Fall Conference
Academic Conferences·Sep 16, 2025, 9:00 AM·University of Chicago | David Rubenstein Forum | Room 601 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
2025 IO+ Conference
Associated Upcoming Events
Academic Conferences·Sep 24, 2026, 9:00 AM·University of Chicago | David Rubenstein Forum | Room 601 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
2026 IO+ Conference
Associated Insights
Associated News
BFI News·Aug 31, 2022
BFI Awards Nine New Grants for the Study of Industrial Organization
Topics:
Industrial Organization
Media Mention·Feb 12, 2021
Washing machines reveal how trade and competition are linked
Media Mention·Jun 28, 2019
If Trump can’t make a deal with Xi, rising tariff impact could help Democrats
Topics:
Industrial Organization
Other Initiatives & Centers at BFI
Research Initiatives
- Public Economics Initiative
- Socioeconomic Inequalities Initiative
- Political Economics Initiative
- Macroeconomic Research Initiative
- Ronzetti Initiative for the Study of Labor Markets
- Price Theory Initiative
- International Economics and Economic Geography Initiative
- Health Economics Initiative
- Big Data Initiative