
Fiona M. Scott-Morton Academic Steering Committee European Commission Yale University (New Haven)
ContactFiona M. Scott Morton was appointed Chief Competition Economist to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP) in June 2023. She will assume the post as of September 1st 2023. 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. Her area of academic research is industrial organization, with a focus on empirical studies of competition. The focus of her current research is competition in healthcare markets and the economics of antitrust. From 2011-12 Professor Scott Morton served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis (Chief Economist) 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 and antitrust economics. She served as Associate Dean from 2007-10 and has won the School’s teaching award three times. She founded and directs the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale, a vehicle to provide more antitrust programming and policy projects to Yale students. Professor Scott Morton has a BA from Yale and a PhD from MIT, both in Economics. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences across the United States and Europe.
2022 Awards
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Addictive technology and its implications for antitrust enforcementNorth Carolina Law Review, Niels J. Rosenquist, Fiona M. Scott Morton and Samuel Weinstein, 2022, Volume 100 (forthcoming)
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The Real dish on the T-Mobile/Sprint merger: A disastrous deal from the startProMarket, Melody Wang and Fiona Scott Morton, 23 April 2021
2020 Awards
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Five Principles for Vertical Merger Enforcement PolicyNancy Rose, Fiona M. Scott-Morton, Jonathan Baker and Steven C. Salop, Antitrust, Vol. 33, No. 3, Summer 2019
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Framing the Chicago School of Antitrust AnalysisHerbert J. Hovenkamp and Fiona M. Scott-Morton, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 14 November 2019
Distinctions
Winner, 2022 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Mergers
Nominee, 2022 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Digital
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Mergers
Nominee, 2018 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Mergers
Nominee, 2016 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Intellectual Property
Winner, 2015 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Intellectual Property
Nominee, 2014 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Economics



