Alexander MacKay
Education
Ph.D., economics, The University of Chicago
Summary of Experience
Professor MacKay is an economist with research in industrial organization, antitrust and competition policy, and applied econometrics. His academic work addresses how prices and markups are influenced by algorithms, long-term contracts, and vertical restraints. Professor MacKay also studies dynamic consumer behavior and its impacts in various contexts, including mergers, the adoption of new technologies, and long-run sectoral shifts. His academic papers have been cited by The New York Times, the Financial Times, Time magazine, NPR, and the Economic Report of the President. Prior to joining the University of Virginia faculty, Professor MacKay was on the faculty of Harvard Business School. There, he founded the Pricing Lab within the Digital Data Design Institute, where he continues to serve as a principal investigator. Professor MacKay has taught and designed M.B.A. course material on competition, antitrust, and regulation, and he currently teaches courses on the principles of microeconomics. Earlier in his career, he was a business consultant at a firm specializing in the design and analysis of business experiments.