Research Initiative

Industrial Organization Initiative

Investigating how firms, industries, and markets operate and interact

Faculty Directors: Ali Hortaçsu and Chad Syverson

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.

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

Michael Dinerstein

Assistant Professor, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
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

Austan Goolsbee

Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business
UChicago Scholar

Gunter J. Hitsch

Kilts Family Professor of Marketing, Chicago Booth
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

Ryan Kellogg

Professor and Deputy Dean for Academic Programs, Harris Public Policy
UChicago Scholar

Sanjog Misra

Charles H. Kellstadt Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing and Applied AI, Chicago Booth

Anita Rao

Associate Professor of Marketing, Booth School of Business
UChicago Scholar

Brad Shapiro

Professor of Marketing, Booth School of Business
UChicago Scholar

Avner Strulov-Shlain

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Booth School of Business
UChicago Scholar

Chad Syverson

George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor, Booth School of Business; Co-Director of BFI Industrial Organization Initiative
UChicago Scholar

Thomas Wollmann

Associate Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business

Associated Research

BFI Working Paper·Jun 10, 2024

Spatial Competition, Strategic Entry Responses, and the North Dakota Railroad War of 1905

Chad Syverson
Topics: Industrial Organization
BFI Working Paper·Feb 22, 2024

Optimal Urban Transportation Policy: Evidence from Chicago

Milena Almagro, Felipe Barbieri, Juan Camilo Castillo, Nathaniel Hickok, and Tobias Salz
Topics: Industrial Organization
BFI Working Paper·Jan 31, 2024

Export-Platform FDI: Cannibalization or Complementarity?

Pol Antràs, Evgenii Fadeev, Teresa C. Fort, and Felix Tintelnot
Topics: Industrial Organization

Associated Past Events

Sep 21
Event·Sep 21, 2023, 12:00 AM·University of Chicago | David Rubenstein Forum Room 601 1201 E 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637

IO+ Conference

Event·May 9, 2019, 5:00 PM·Gleacher Center, Room 621

Super-Star Firms, Monopolies, and Productivity: Are We in a New Gilded Age or a New Rust Age?

Topics: Employment & Wages, Industrial Organization

Associated Insights

Research Briefs·Apr 25, 2024

Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam

Milena Almagro and Tomás Domínguez-Iino
Different demographic groups tend to prefer different types of amenities, and businesses respond by expanding amenities in neighborhoods with greater demand. This pattern reinforces residential sorting, with ambiguous effects on inequality.
Topics: Industrial Organization
Research Briefs·Apr 3, 2024

Optimal Urban Transportation Policy: Evidence from Chicago

Milena Almagro, Felipe Barbieri, Juan Camilo Castillo, Nathaniel Hickok, and Tobias Salz
In Chicago, welfare would be increased by charging almost nothing for public transit, increasing the frequency of trains, and lowering the frequency of buses. Road pricing reduces environmental externalities, but only benefits travelers if the revenues are used for transit...
Topics: Industrial Organization
Research Briefs·Jun 8, 2023

Micro- and Macroeconomic Impacts of a Place-Based Industrial Policy

Enghin Atalay, Ali Hortaçsu, Chad Syverson, and Mehmet Fatih Ulu
Turkey’s Law 2012/3305 boosted economic activity among businesses in eligible industries/provinces and led to positive spillovers to the suppliers and customers of subsidized firms. In the long run, the policy reduced income inequality between regions only moderately, due to migration...
Topics: Industrial Organization

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

The Economist; Ali Hortaçsu, Felix Tintelnot
Media Mention·Jun 28, 2019

If Trump can’t make a deal with Xi, rising tariff impact could help Democrats

Topics: Industrial Organization