Anthony Lee Zhang
Anthony Lee Zhang studies questions in market design. His work covers topics including financial derivatives, housing markets, and the allocation of natural resources such as land and electromagnetic spectrum. Zhang has received a number of honors and awards, including the 2019 AQR Top Finance Graduate Award and the 2018 Facebook Fellowship. Zhang earned a BA in economics from the University of Chicago in 2013, where he received the Becker Friedman Institute Award for Academic Achievement in Microeconomics, and a PhD in Economic Analysis and Policy from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2019.
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Spectrum Auctions: There Is Elegance in the Mundane
As a student, Booth School Professor Anthony Lee Zhang was puzzled that Paul Milgrom chose to spend so much of his time...
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Antitrust and Competition
Should the European Union Require Tech Firms to Adopt a Common Charger?
According to a new European Commission directive expected to be approved in the next few months, tech firms will have to use...
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Chart of the Week: Economists Don’t Think Congress Should Make Price Gouging Illegal
Most economists disagree with a new bill in the US that would set limits on "unconscionably excessive prices," according to a recent...
Antitrust and Competition
Neoliberal Economists Are Giving Biden Bad Advice on Inflation
To spare the economy from the pain of further interest rate hikes, the President should aggressively pursue anticompetitive conduct by companies in...
Antitrust and Competition
How Would the Big Tech Self-Preferencing Bill Affect Users?
The Senate looks to be nearing a vote on the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would prohibit gatekeeping digital platforms...
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New eBook Revisits George Stigler’s Theory of Regulatory Capture 50 Years Later
To mark the 50-year anniversary of George Stigler’s seminal piece, “The Theory of Economic Regulation” we are publishing a new eBook examining...
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Firms Gerrymander Ownership of Polluting Plants to Reap Public and Regulatory Benefits
New research has discovered that many companies who appear to sell, or ‘divest,’ their toxic plants, actually retain relationships with their buyers....
Antitrust and Competition
How Should Antitrust Deal With Facebook? A Stigler Center Panel Investigates
Panelists at the Stigler Center’s recent antitrust conference look at the antitrust case against Facebook and discuss potential theories of harm, as...
