“An Assessment of Recent U.S. Antitrust Enforcement: Goals, Tools, and Decisions” with Fiona Scott Morton and Jonathan Baker

Lunch will be available shortly after 12:00 p.m. and the conversation will start at 12:10 p.m.

Please register by Monday, March 25th.

Fiona M. Scott Morton is the Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management, where she has been on the faculty since 1999. Her area of academic research is industrial organization, with a focus on empirical studies of competition. The focus of her current research is competition in healthcare markets and the economics of antitrust. From 2011–12, Professor Scott Morton served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis (Chief Economist) at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she helped enforce the nation’s antitrust laws. At Yale SOM, she teaches courses in the area of competitive strategy and antitrust economics. She served as Associate Dean from 2007–10 and has won the school’s teaching award three times. She founded and directs the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale, a vehicle to provide more antitrust programming and policy projects to Yale students. Professor Scott Morton has a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from MIT, both in Economics. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences across the United States and Europe. 

Jonathan B. Baker is Research Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law.  He specializes in the areas of antitrust and economic regulation.  Professor Baker served as the Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission from 2009 to 2011, and as the Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission from 1995 to 1998.  Previously, he worked as a Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, an Attorney Advisor to the Acting Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, and an antitrust lawyer in private practice.  Professor Baker is the author of The Antitrust Paradigm, the co-author of an antitrust casebook, a past Editorial Chair of Antitrust Law Journal, and a past member of the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law.  He has published widely in the fields of antitrust law, policy, and economics.  Professor Baker has received the Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship, American University’s Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Other Professional Accomplishments, and the Federal Trade Commission’s Award for Distinguished Service.  He has a J.D. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.