Fiona M. Scott Morton

Fiona M. Scott Morton is the Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at the Yale University School of Management. Her area of academic research is industrial organization, with a focus on empirical studies of competition.

Her published articles range widely across industries from magazines, to shipping, to pharmaceuticals to internet retailing, and she has been published in leading economics and legal journals. The focus of her current research is competition in healthcare markets and the economics of antitrust.

She served previously as the deputy assistant attorney general for economics at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she helped enforce the nation’s antitrust laws. Scott Morton has a B.A. in economics from Yale University and Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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