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Vivek Ghosal

Associate Professor
Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Ghosal received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Florida specializing in Industrial Organization and Econometrics. Subsequently he was a faculty member at the University of Florida and Miami University. Before joining the faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001, he was a Research Economist at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice where he worked on issues related to mergers, horizontal and vertical market power, tying agreements, joint ventures, price-fixing and cross-subsidization. Some of the industries he was involved in investigating include electricity, natural gas, information technology, radio broadcasting, oilfield drilling services and postal. While at the Antitrust Division, the investigative procedures and competition advocacy issues lead him to interact with other governmental agencies such as the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of State.

His current research and policy interests include: competition policy and law enforcement related to evaluation of mergers and detection of cartels; business policy and regulatory reform; firms' innovation strategy, competitive advantage and firm-reorganization in automobile and pulp and paper industries; mergers and business strategy in information technology and electric industries; firms' investment and entry decisions under uncertainty and sunk costs; and healthcare markets including pharmaceuticals pricing and effectiveness of U.S. and European healthcare systems. He has published articles in a number of peer reviewed journals, has a book chapter published in Recent Advances in Antitrust Enforcement (MIT Press, 2006), and he is the co-editor of the book The Political Economy of Antitrust published under the Contributions to Economic Analysis series (Elsevier, 2007).

Dr. Ghosal is a Research Fellow at CESifo (Munich) and ENCORE (Amsterdam), a Research Professor at the Department of Innovation, Manufacturing and Service, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW, Berlin) and a Research Affiliate at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Industry Studies Program. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) and the Editorial Board of the Review of Industrial Organization. He has taught a graduate summer school course on "Competition Law Enforcement" at the University of Amsterdam, and presented lectures on "Regulation of Mergers and Detection of Cartels: What we can learn from the Experiences of the United States and Europe" to government officials and other audiences in Lima (Peru). He organized the International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC, Atlanta, 2007), has been member of program committees for IIOC and EARIE, and is organizing a workshop on "Reforming Rules and Regulations: Laws, Institutions and Enforcement," as part of CESifo's Venice Summer Institute (scheduled, July 2008).

He has been a consultant for various organizations including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris) and the Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies (An Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Center).