Steven Salop is a Professor of Economics and Law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where he teaches antitrust law and economics. His research and consulting focuses on antitrust, competition, and regulation. He has written numerous articles in various areas of antitrust and competition—including exclusionary conduct, mergers, and joint ventures—many of which take a modern “Post-Chicago” approach. These include a series of articles analyzing vertical mergers and other exclusionary and collusive conduct.
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Nancy L. Rose
Nancy L. Rose is the Head of the Department of Economics and Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where her teaching and research focus on industrial organization, competition policy, and the economics of regulation. She served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2014–2016, and directed the National Bureau of Economic Research program in Industrial Organization from its creation in 1991 until her appointment to the Department of Justice. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society.
Her research includes analyses of economic regulation and firm behavior, labor rent-sharing and determinants of executive pay, and merger policy. Her edited volume Economic Regulation and Its Reform: What Have We Learned? (NBER, 2014) describes the regulatory landscapes and lessons learned from deregulation and regulatory restructuring across eight broad industries, and the interplay of competition policy and economic regulation.
Professor Rose received her Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and an A.B. in Economics and Government from Harvard University. Her accomplishments have been recognized by numerous fellowships over her career, including those from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Hoover Institution, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and National Science Foundation. Her professional service includes membership on the American Antitrust Institute Advisory Board, terms as Vice President and Executive Committee member of the American Economic Association (AEA), and independent directorships on both public and non-profit boards.
Andrew I. Gavil
Amy Batchelor
Amy Batchelor is a program examiner in the Medicaid branch at the Office of Management and Budget and an adjunct instructor at the Columbia University School of Social Work. She holds a B.A. in international affairs from George Washington University and a master’s in social work from Columbia University.
Bonnie Kavoussi
Bonnie Kavoussi is a former policy fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. She holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in history and economics from Harvard University.
Mark Stelzner
Jeffrey Burnette
Jeffrey Burnette is assistant professor of economics at Rochester Institute of Technology. His research is in the areas of education, race and inequality with a focus on understanding their intersection with American Indian and Alaska Native identity. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the State University of New York University (SUNY) at Buffalo in 2005 and a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the SUNY at Albany.
Alix Gould-Werth
Alix Gould-Werth is the former director of family economic security policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, she was a human services researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. Gould-Werth holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. Her work focuses on poverty and inequality and has been published in Monthly Labor Review, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Social Service Review, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and Survey Practice.
Corey Husak
Corey Husak is the policy advisor to Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), U.S. Senate, and research fellow at the Office of the Chief Financial Officer of Washington D.C. Previously, he was the senior manager of government and external relations at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Husak was the NAFTA Policy Coordinator for the Corn Refiners Association and served as an Economic Policy Staffer for U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO). While earning a master’s in public policy from the University of Chicago, Husak completed projects in economic and urban policy for Chicago’s Metropolitan Planning Council and the Office of the CFO of Washington, D.C. Husak received a bachelor’s in history and international relations from William Jewell College after spending a year at the University of Oxford.
Mark Paul
Mark Paul is assistant professor of economics at New College of Florida. His research is in the areas of inequality, environmental economics, and applied microeconomics, focused on understanding the causes and consequences of inequality and assessing and designing remedies to address it. He is a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and previously was a postdoctoral associate at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2016 and his Bachelor of Arts in economics, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011. His writings have appeared in The American Prospect, The Nation, The Hill, Washington Monthly, US News & World Report, Jacobin, and Dissent, among other publications. His work has been cited by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The Atlantic, Vox, Bloomberg, The Financial Times, Slate, and more.