BIO

Steven Berry is a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. He received his BA in economics from Northwestern University and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been on the economics faculty at Yale since 1988. He is currently the inaugural Faculty Director of the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale, which focuses on research and policy impact in broad areas of domestic economic policy.  Berry is a winner of the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society and is an elected Fellow of that society. He is also an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was named the 2017 Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

At Yale, he has served as Economics Department Chair and as Director of the Division of Social Sciences. Berry has also served as a consultant for governments, policy institutes and the private sector, focusing on questions of antitrust as well as environmental and trade policy.

Professor Berry specializes in the field of Industrial Organization, including both methodology and applied empirical questions. He focuses on empirical models of markets in equilibrium, considering demand for differentiated products and imperfectly competitive supply. Methodologically, he has examined the fundamental sources of identification in empirical models of multi-product demand, pricing, and firm entry. His applied studies span industries including airlines, automobiles, agriculture, and media, with policy applications including antitrust, environmental regulation, and international trade. Recent work extends previously developed methods to new domains, including imperfectly competitive labor markets, voting behavior, and the environmental consequences of land use.