School of Economics

Dr. Ghosal is Professor at the School of Economics at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research and policy interests include: (1) Antitrust/Competition Laws and Enforcement; (2) Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage – Innovation, M&As and Pricing; (3) Public Policies Towards Businesses, and Corporate Strategy; and (4) Firms’ Decision-Making Under Uncertainty. His research, grants and contact work have included industries such as Automobiles, Healthcare,  Transportation, Information Technology, Energy & Electricity, and Pulp and Paper.  Some of his current industry research projects include: Product Differentiation, Innovation and Market Share Dynamics in the Automobile Industry; Adoption of Information Technology by Healthcare Clinics; and Environmental Regulations, Investments and Innovation in the Pulp and Paper Industry.

Professor Ghosal has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, is co-editor the book The Political Economy of Antitrust (Elsevier, 2007), editor of the book Reforming Rules and Regulations: Laws, Institutions and Implementation (MIT Press, 2010), and is member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Industrial Organization.

Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 2001, Professor Ghosal was an Economist at the Antitrust Division (U.S. Department of Justice) where he worked on mergers and acquisitions, horizontal and vertical market power, tying agreements, joint ventures, price-fixing and cross-subsidization. Some of the markets he investigated include electricity, nuclear fuel, natural gas, coal, information technology, radio broadcasting, oilfield drilling services and postal.

Professor Ghosal has been a consultant for international organizations, governments, consulting firms and companies on issues related to: antitrust/competition policy and law enforcement; regulatory reform; business and economic modeling of markets; industry studies; and statistical and econometric modeling. He has provided project and expert reports, and testimony.