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Welcome! I am the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Business & Public Policy, and Professor of Marketing, at the Simon Business School, University of Rochester. I am also the founder and Director of the Simon School's Center for Pricing, and I am an associate fellow of the Bradley Policy Research Center and the Business & Policy Initiative.

My research interests lie at the intersection of marketing, industrial organization, and competition policy, with a focus on pricing and vertical contracting issues.

My work has appeared in the American Economic Review; the Journal of Political Economy; Management Science; Marketing Science; the Rand Journal of Economics; the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics; the Economic Journal; the Journal of Law & Economics; the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, the European Economic Review, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Southern Economic Journal, and Advances in Applied Microeconomics.

I have enjoyed teaching Pricing Policies to the Simon School's MS and MBA students over the years, and I have won numerous teaching awards while doing so, including three times being voted teacher of the year! I have also taught PhD courses on Topics in Industrial Organization, Issues in Vertical Contracting, and The Economics of Exclusion at Simon and abroad at the University of Bergen and the Norwegian School of Economics. 

I am currently serving as Department Editor at Management Science (since 2024), Co-Editor at the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (since 2002), and Associate Editor at the Journal of Economics & Business (since 1998). I have also had the honor of serving as Associate Editor at Management Science (2013-2024), Associate Editor and occasional Senior Guest Editor at Marketing Science (2002-2010 and 2012-2018), and as Associate Editor at Quantitative Marketing and Economics (2002-2007 and 2011-2016).

On a personal note, I am married (Annie) and have two teenaged sons (Ryan and Nathan). As you can see from my photo, I like to play chess in my spare time. I do not, however, typically wear a suit and tie when I do so. Like Magnus, I prefer blue jeans.

You can find my CV here and extended bio and other useful information here.