Summary
Robin S. Lee is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he teaches courses on industrial organization for doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students. Robin is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, previously served as a co-editor of American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, and previously served on the faculty at New York University Stern School of Business. Notably, he was honored in 2020 with the Econometric Society's Frisch Medal, which recognizes outstanding empirical or theoretical applied research in economics.
Robin has extensive experience developing and applying formal analytic frameworks to model firm competition in a diverse set of industries. He has analyzed proposed mergers in energy, healthcare, media, and technology markets on behalf of both merging parties and government agencies. He has also provided expert consulting on topics such as health plan design and selective contracting.
Robin’s research interests lie primarily in industrial organization and also include applied microeconomic theory and health economics. His research has examined how firms bargain, contract, and form supply relationships in imperfectly competitive markets. Topics covered by his work include vertical integration, mergers, and exclusive deals in media and in multisided, platform-based technology markets; insurer-provider consolidation, narrow networks, and selective contracting in healthcare markets; and market design innovation in financial markets. Robin has published articles in journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, and the RAND Journal of Economics, and his work has been supported by the National Science Foundation.
Robin has been retained as a testifying expert in several antitrust and competition matters. Most recently, he served as an expert witness in the landmark case United States et al. v. Google LLC, which has been described as one of the most significant antitrust cases in decades.
Education
PhD, Business Economics, Harvard University
AM, Economics, Harvard University
AB, Economics, Harvard University
