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 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 she was 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. She was Yale 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
How to secure the benefits of an EU-wide incorporation regime
An EU Inc. plan for a common company regime should become more targeted and be underpinned by better system infrastructure
What the heck is a 28th Regime?
The European Commission’s new plan for business law, in context
Europe needs a regulated market for personal data
Data markets would provide a middle ground between shutting down many online services and unchecked exploitation of users
Europeans should be allowed to trade personal data
Well-designed data markets could curb gatekeeper power, protect privacy and pay users for sharing data, while preserving ad-supported digital services
A new founding regime for Europe
Regime 0: Europe-wide incorporation for startups to kickstart innovative growth
Regime 0: Europe-wide incorporation for startups to kickstart innovative growth
An optional EU regime is proposed to lower barriers for high-growth startups via swift incorporation, simple governance and cross-border access
CET technical workshop on merger guidelines
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
Access Pricing for App Stores Under the DMA
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
Updated assessment: Memos to the commissioners responsible for the internal market, industrial policy and competition
The EU vs. Big Tech: Regulating for innovation and sovereignty
How should the EU regulate Big Tech and Artificial Intelligence?
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.
A fork in the road for EU competition policy
In her instructions to the incoming EU competition commissioner, Ursula von der Leyen equivocates on the issue of national champions
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
The Draghi report and competition policy
The long-awaited Draghi report is a boost to robust competition enforcement
The three pillars of effective European Union competition policy
This Policy Brief clarifies the relationship between competition and industrial policy, and shows that there is in fact no tension
All work
Analysis
27 May 2026
How to secure the benefits of an EU-wide incorporation regime
An EU Inc. plan for a common company regime should become more targeted and be underpinned by better system infrastructure
Podcast
25 March 2026
What the heck is a 28th Regime?
The European Commission’s new plan for business law, in context
First Glance
18 February 2026
Europe needs a regulated market for personal data
Data markets would provide a middle ground between shutting down many online services and unchecked exploitation of users
Working paper
18 February 2026
Europeans should be allowed to trade personal data
Well-designed data markets could curb gatekeeper power, protect privacy and pay users for sharing data, while preserving ad-supported digital services
External publication
29 June 2025
Opinion piece
08 January 2026
Newsletter
15 December 2025
Policy Brief
10 December 2025
Regime 0: Europe-wide incorporation for startups to kickstart innovative growth
An optional EU regime is proposed to lower barriers for high-growth startups via swift incorporation, simple governance and cross-border access
News
12 November 2025
Event
10 December 2025
Regime0: Kickstarting growth with an EU wide startup incorporation regime
How to attract entrepreneurs to invest in Europe