Steven Berry

Steven Berry is the David Swensen Professor of Economics and the inaugural Jeffrey Talpins Faculty Director of the Tobin Center for Economic Policy, specializing in the empirical analysis of markets in equilibrium. Berry is a winner of the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society and is an elected fellow of that society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was named the 2017 Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Berry’s research focuses on empirical applications and methodology in the broad field of Industrial Organization. He has analyzed a wide range of markets, including automobiles, airlines, and media. He has served as a consultant for governments, policy institutes, and the private sector, focusing on questions of antitrust as well as environmental and trade policy. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A. from Northwestern University.