Research Expertise and Interest

antitrust economics

Research Description

Matthew Backus is an associate professor in the Economic Analysis and Policy Group at Berkeley Haas. His focus is industrial organization, a field of economics that studies market power in its myriad forms. His research has touched on auctions, bargaining, cartels, communication, and productivity. A recurrent theme in his work is the development of tools that allow us to empirically distinguish between theoretical models of behavior.

Backus is also a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic and Policy Research. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan.