Kevin Murphy, Ph.D., Principal, is the George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He specializes in microeconomics, labor economics, price theory, industrial organization, and numerical methods in statistics. In 1997, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal given biannually to the American economist under the age of forty with the most distinguished research record. In 2005, he was the first business school professor to be named a MacArthur Fellow, commonly known as the MacArthur "Genius Grant." He consults in antitrust, intellectual property and regulation matters and in a wide range of economic policy and research topics. |