Bio: Howard Smith was educated at Ballymena Academy, University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford. He was a post-doctoral research fellow and then an associate professor in economics at Oxford. He has served in various roles as an academic advisor to the Competition Commission and later the Competition and Markets Authority. His research is in empirical Industrial Organization, focusing on competition and regulation in industries such as supermarkets, food, construction and auditing. 

Main position:

Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Oxford University

Economics Department web page

Other affiliations:

Research Associate - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS, London)

Research Fellow - Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London)

Academic Panel Member - Competition and Markets Authority (CMA, London)

Research field: Industrial Organization:

Models of industry behavior in oligopoly product markets, and their econometric estimation, with application to competition policy issues.

Differentiated products, spatial competition, vertical relations.

Principal Investigator, ESRC Project: "Empirical Analysis of Vertical Contracting in Intermediate Goods Markets" [2015-2018].

Other information:

Link to CV: CV