Alexander MacKay, PhD
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Alexander MacKay brings empirical and theoretical expertise to bear on antitrust relevant pricing practices and market behavior, including pricing algorithms, vertical restraints, and mergers.
Alexander MacKay is the James H. and Elizabeth W. Wright Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. His research lies at the intersection of antitrust policy, price competition, consumer behavior, and technology and examines how equilibrium prices and markups are influenced by algorithms, long-term contracts, and vertical restraints. He also studies dynamic consumer behavior and its impacts in various contexts, including mergers, the adoption of new technologies, and longer-run sectoral shifts. His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, and American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, and it has been cited by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, TIME Magazine, National Public Radio, and the Economic Report of the President.
Alex has taught courses in microeconomics, competition and strategy, and econometrics. He is a principal investigator in the Pricing Lab of Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—a global research center focused on AI and digital technologies—and has served as a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Before joining the University of Virginia, Alex was an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he also authored multiple MBA case studies. Following completion of his PhD, he held a joint postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Education
PhD, Economics, University of Chicago
MA, Economics, University of Chicago
BA, Economics, University of Virginia (with distinction)
