
Fiona M. Scott Morton is the Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at the Yale University School of Management, where she has been on the faculty since 1999. Fiona holds courtesy appointments at the rank of Professor from the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Law (Adjunct), Public Health (Health Policy), and Economics (FAS). Her area of academic research is empirical industrial organization, with a focus on empirical studies of competition in areas such as pricing, entry, and product differentiation. Her published articles range widely across industries, from magazines, to shipping, to pharmaceuticals, to internet retailing, and are published in leading economics journals. From 2011-12, Professor Scott Morton served 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. At Yale SOM she teaches courses in the area of competitive strategy. She served as Associate Dean from 2007-10 and she won the School’s teaching award twice. She has served in an editing role on various academic economics journals, has won several research grants from the National Science Foundation, and is a Research Associate at NBER. Professor Scott Morton has a BA from Yale and a PhD from MIT. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences across the United States and Europe.
Expertise
Education
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994
- BA, Yale University, 1989
Courses
- Competitive Strategy MGT 525
- Competition Economics & Policy MGT 589
Selected Articles
Surprise! Out-of-Network Billing for Emergency Care in the United States
Do Increasing Markups Matter? Lessons from Empirical Industrial Organization
Antitrust and Innovation: Welcoming and Protecting Disruption
Committee for the Study of Digital Platforms Market Structure and Antitrust Subcommittee Report
The Impact of the Entry of Biosimilars: Evidence from Europe
Working Papers
Roadmap for a Digital Advertising Monopolization Case Against Google
Roadmap for a Monopolization Case Against Google Regarding the Search Market
Roadmap for an Antitrust Case Against Facebook
Testing the Theory of Common Stock Ownership
Scarcity Rents in Car Retailing: Evidence From Inventory Fluctuations at Dealerships
Achievements
- Academic Grant: The impact of antitrust on competition, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, 2018
- Yale SOM Alumni Association Teaching Award, Yale School of Management Alumni Association, 2015-2015, 2006-2007
- Health Care Research Award For "The Effect of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization" American Economic Review, Vol.100, No. 1, 590-607, with Mark Duggan, National Institute for Health Care Management, 2011
- National Science Foundation Research Grant 1064341, "The Industrial Organization of the Biologics Industry: Theory, Empirics and Policy", 2011-2013
- Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Review, 2010, 2011
- Green Award, Journal of Marketing Research, 2007
- National Science Foundation Research Grant, 1998-2002, 2001-2003, 2005-2008
Special Projects
Antitrust Data and Policy
One of the organizers of Unlocking Antitrust Enforcement, a collection of Yale Law Journal articles.
Expert Congressional Testimony, Online Platforms and Market Power Part 2: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, July 16, 2019