Fiona M. Scott Morton
Fiona M. Scott Morton is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. She specialises in industrial organisation.
She covers empirical studies of competition. The topics of her current research are the economics of competition enforcement and competition in healthcare markets.
She speaks English.
She is also the Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at the Yale University School of Management (SOM). At Yale SOM she is currently teaching competition economics and at Yale Law School, antitrust law. From 2011-12 Professor Scott Morton served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis (Chief Economist) at the Antitrust Division of the United States 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 competition economics. She served as Associate Dean from 2007-10 and has won Yale's teaching award three times. She founded and directs the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale, a vehicle to provide more competition policy programming to Yale students and the wider competition community. Fiona holds a PhD in Economics from MIT.
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Featured work
The Nobel Prize committee’s message for European innovation
The award of the Nobel Prize to economists working on creative destruction contains a lesson that policymakers should be ready to let some firms go
Digital Platform Regulation: Making Markets Work for People
How does current DMA enforcement affect digital market competition?
EU Tech Rules: What to make of the first DMA fines?
How Brussels can regulate big tech in a time of trade wars
All work
Event
10 December 2025
Regime0: Kickstarting EU growth with a unified startup incorporation regime
How to attract entrepreneurs to invest in Europe
First Glance
16 October 2025
The Nobel Prize committee’s message for European innovation
The award of the Nobel Prize to economists working on creative destruction contains a lesson that policymakers should be ready to let some firms go
Event
25 September 2025
Digital platform regulation: are we all included in the digital economy?
Can smart regulation make digital markets fairer, more open, and better for users?
External publication
04 June 2025
Newsletter
05 May 2025
Podcast
28 April 2025
EU Tech Rules: What to make of the first DMA fines?
How Brussels can regulate big tech in a time of trade wars
First Glance
30 January 2025
Podcast
15 January 2025
The EU vs. Big Tech: Regulating for innovation and sovereignty
How should the EU regulate Big Tech and Artificial Intelligence?
Policy Brief
16 December 2024
It’s time for the European Union to rethink personal social networking
This Policy Brief explores the potential implementation of Article 7 interoperability for social networking core platform systems.
Podcast
06 November 2024
The US voted - what now?
A special live episode of the Sound of Economics podcast on the outcome of the US elections and where to go from here