Dennis W. Carlton
Dennis W. Carlton is the David McDaniel Keller Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, whose faculty he joined in 1984.
From 2006 to 2008, he served as the deputy assistant U.S. attorney general for economic analysis at the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ). He has served as a commissioner on the Antitrust Modernization Commission, a congressional committee investigating the antitrust laws. He also served as a commissioner on the Antitrust Modernization Commission, a congressional committee investigating the antitrust laws.
He was the recipient of a John Harvard Award in 1970; a National Science Foundation fellowship from 1972 to 1975; and the 1977 P.W.S. Andrews Memorial Prize Essay for the best essay in the field of industrial organization by a scholar under the age of 30, and the 2008 Robert F Lanzillotti prize for the best essay in antitrust economics. He was designated the 2014 Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society. In 2014, he was also designated by the publication, Global Competition Review, as Economist of the Year.
Carlton earned a master's degree in operations research and a PhD in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974 and 1975 and a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in 1972 from Harvard College, where he majored in applied mathematics and economics and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Dennis W. Carlton
Oct 26, 2009
1. Do the Guidelines need revision? The Horizontal Merger Guidelines have served a very valuable purpose by making horizontal merger analysis much more sensible than it was prior to the 1980s.There is much less disagreement about horizontal merger policy than there is about vertical antitrust policy so some vertical guidelines would be especially welcome. Nevertheless, ... Dennis Carlton on Revising the Merger Guidelines
