Katja Seim is the Sharon Oster Professor of Economics and Management at Yale University with joint appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics. Previously, Seim has held appointments at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business and served as the Chief Economist to the Federal Communications Commission. Seim currently serves as a Co-Editor of the American Economic Review. She is a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation, and Yale University’s Thurman Arnold Project and Tobin Center for Economic Policy. Seim’s research focuses on topics of industrial organization, regulation, and antitrust. She has analyzed firms’ strategic entry and pricing responses to a range of public policies, including subsidization, entry and technology deployment regulations, competition policy, and tax policy. Her work also evaluates the role of market power in affecting efficiency and distributional outcomes of government efforts at procuring goods and services and selling assets, primarily in the context of spectrum auctions, and the role of consumer inattention in firm pricing and competition in online markets.
