Profile: Dennis Carlton

Competition Economists

Biography: Competition Economists

Dennis W Carlton is a senior managing director at Compass Lexecon. He is also a Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago where he teaches in the Business School, Law School and Economics Department. His teaching and research centres on microeconomics, industrial organisation and antitrust. He has published more than 90 articles and two books, including one of the leading textbooks on industrial organisation. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Law and Economics and of Competition Policy International, and serves on the advisory board of the Journal of Competition Law and Economics.

Dr Carlton recently served as the deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. He also served as the sole economist on the recent Antitrust Modernization Commission, a congressional commission that published its findings in 2007. He has also served as a consultant for the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, and as a special consultant to the Department of Justice in the revision of the 1992 Merger Guidelines and to the FTC on antitrust policy.

He earned his PhD in Economics in 1975 from MIT, his MS in Operations Research from MIT in 1974, and his AB (summa cum laude) in 1972 from Harvard College, where he majored in Applied Mathematics and Economics and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.