Fiona M. Scott Morton
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.
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Featured work
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.
The Sound of Economics Live: The US voted - what now?
A special live episode of the Sound of Economics podcast about the US elections
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
The DMA and Market Structure
At this event, we assessed the DMA's impact, who is benefiting, and whether it encourages digital platforms to reorganise.
Bruegel Annual Meetings | 4-5 September 2024
This year's Annual Meetings centered around the launch of the Bruegel Memos to the European Union leadership 2024-2029
Memo to the commissioner responsible for competition
Google Search found out
A US finding of illegal monopolisation of online search by Google could boost competition and innovation
Is there a trade-off between competition and competitiveness?
This event debated the trade-off between competition enforcement and international competitiveness
How can the Digital Markets Act enhance digital innovation?
Entry and competition in mobile app stores
The DMA raises tantalising opportunities for app stores innovation, making it the most exciting area of digital regulation.
The chicken-and-egg problem in the European Union Digital Markets Act
Business users are needed to help create useful interfaces, while useful interfaces are needed to justify investment and entry by business users.
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.
What do the antitrust cases against Amazon reveal about contestability in the EU and the US?
Improving the contestability of e-commerce in two jurisdictions: the Amazon case
The conduct described in the US complaints against Amazon harms competition between online stores and among the merchants who sell via them.
DMA and Innovation: Charting the future of European tech
How does DMA impact innovation for platforms, considering factors like data integration, consumer consent, market competition?
How will the DMA affect the interoperability of Google Android?
Digital Market Act designations: the interoperability of Google Android
The European Commission has taken an intelligent first step in enabling competition to Google Android and Google Play Services
‘Home-grown’ innovation has costs as well as benefits
Europe can improve its innovation systems, but should not try to copy the US approach
Digital empires: the global battle to regulate technology
Anu Bradford, the author of Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology engaged in a discussion with Fiona Scott Morton
Talks@Bruegel: Gatekeepers in the Digital Markets Act with Fiona Scott Morton
Invitation-only event featuring Fiona Scott Morton who will talk about Core Platform Services and their obligations
Market power and its implications to competition policy
What are the reasons behind the global trends in corporate margins and market concentration?