John Asker is a Professor of Economics at UCLA, where he holds the Armen A. Alchian Chair in Economic Theory. His research investigates topics related to antitrust policy, cartel behavior, firm-level productivity, and the aggregate impact of market power. In his research he employs a mix of theoretical and empirical methods. His papers have been published in journals in economics and finance, including the American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy. He is a co-editor of American Economic Journal: Microeconomics and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard University and a B.Ec(Hons) from the Australian National University.

Yongmin Chen, PhD, Boston University, 1992, is a Professor and Provost’s Chair of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research interests center around pricing, consumer search, vertical organization, intellectual property/innovation, and law & economics. With over 60 journal articles, he has contributed to the economic analysis of a variety of topics, including (dynamic) price discrimination, product differentiation and price competition, competitive effects of vertical merger, the legal and market determinants of innovation, and the operation of online markets with consumer search. He is an associate editor of the RAND Journal of Economics, and he served as a co-editor (2011-12) and managing editor (2013-19) of the International Journal of Industrial Organization.