Alexander MacKay

James H. and Elizabeth W. Wright Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Associate Professor of Economics

Office Address/Hours

Elson Hall, Room 156 / Thursday 3:00 - 4:30pm

Industrial Organization, Antitrust and Competition Policy, Applied Microeconomics, Microeconomics

Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Virginia
Master of Arts (MA), University of Chicago
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Chicago

Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences (with Hendrik Döpper, Nathan H. Miller, and Joel Stiebale). Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy.

Estimating Models of Supply and Demand: Instruments and Covariance Restrictions (with Nathan H. Miller). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2025), 238–81.

Competition in Pricing Algorithms (with Zach Y. Brown). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2023), 109-56.

Recovering Investor Expectations from Demand for Index Funds (with Mark Egan and Hanbin Yang). Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 89, No. 5 (2022), 2559-2599.

Contract Duration and the Costs of Market Transactions. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 14, No. 3 (2022), 164-212.

The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation (with Tatyana Deryugina and Julian Reif). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2020), 86–114.