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Fiona M. Scott Morton

Bruegel Senior Fellow

Fiona M. Scott Morton is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel and the Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at the Yale University School of Management.  Her field of economics is industrial organization and within this field she focuses on empirical studies of competition. The topics of her current research are the economics of competition enforcement and competition in healthcare markets. 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. She frequently presents to, and advises, government agencies tasked with enforcing competition law. 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 the School’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. Professor Scott Morton holds a BA from Yale and a PhD from MIT, both in Economics.

Disclosure of interests

Declaration of interests 2024

Featured work

Podcast

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

Rebecca Christie, Heather Grabbe, Fiona M. Scott Morton and Guntram B. Wolff
Podcast

A year in review

As 2023 closes, we look back at some of the most important and interesting economic policy developments from Europe and the world.

Rebecca Christie, Heather Grabbe, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Fiona M. Scott Morton and Jeromin Zettelmeyer