Margaret Slade
Margaret Slade is professor emeritus in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. She taught at UBC for 20 years before going to the UK to become the Leverhulme Professor of Industrial Economics at the University of Warwick. After six years in the UK, she retired and returned to Canada and the VSE.
Slade's research is concerned with applied problems in Industrial Organization, especially those requiring the analysis of data. She is interested in both horizontal (same product market) and vertical (buying and selling) relationships and policies. She has advised government agencies in numerous countries as well as private parties.
Prior to becoming an economist, Slade worked as a mathematician for Shell Development, the US Geological Survey, and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research of New Zealand.
She obtained her Ph.D. from The George Washington University.
Margaret Slade
Feb 06, 2020
[TOTM: The following is part of a symposium by TOTM guests and authors on the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines. The entire series of posts is available here. This post is authored by Margaret E. Slade (Professor Emeritus, Vancouver School of Economics, The University of British Columbia).] A revision of the DOJ’s Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines is ... Slade: The Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines Are a Step in the Right Direction, But Uneven on Critical Issues
