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
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
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
All work
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
Event
10 December 2025
Regime0: Kickstarting growth with an EU wide 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