Promoting research on antitrust policy, competition,
and market power.
The aim of the IOS is to promote research on antitrust policy, regulatory policy, and competition, and market power in real-world markets. Since 2003, the IOS has sponsored an annual International Industrial Organization Conference in order to accommodate the needs and interests of the burgeoning field.
Founded in 1972
The Industrial Organization Society was founded in 1972 by Stanley Boyle and Willard Mueller.
The IOS published the Industrial Organization Review (1973-1983), originally edited by Stanley E. (Gene) Boyle, and has published its successor journal, the Review of Industrial Organization, since 1984. For a brief history of the RIO, see Shepherd (RIO 2018). The RIO is known for frontier research and innovative formats, such as the annual reports of chief economists at major competition policy agencies.
The IOS sponsors sessions at international conferences, such as the American Economic Association and the Southern Economic Association annual meetings.
The IOS holds the annual International Industrial Organization Conference to showcase innovative and policy-relevant research in industrial organization and bring together economists in academia, government, and the private sector for discussion and debate. After a trial conference at George Washington University in 1999, the current IIOC launched in 2003 at Northeastern University. It has been held every year except 2020 at locations including Boston, Chicago, Savannah, Vancouver, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, and regularly attracts hundreds of attendees.
Since 2008, the IIOC has also featured Rising Star sessions in which promising graduate students present their work.
Leadership
2025 Officers
President: Judith A. Chevalier, Yale School of Management
Vice-president: Julie Holland Mortimer, University of Virginia
Treasurer: Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College
Secretary: Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
Board of Directors
Heski Bar-Isaac, University of Toronto
Federico Ciliberto, University of Virginia
Christopher Conlon, New York University
Paul Grieco, The Pennsylvania State University, IIOC Program Chair
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland
John Kwoka, Northeastern University
Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan
Robert Porter, Northwestern University
Nancy L. Rose, MIT
Katja Seim, Yale University
Alan Sorensen, University of Wisconsin
Lawrence White, New York University
Mo Xiao, University of Arizona
Past Presidents
Nancy Rose, MIT, 2022-2023
Robert Porter, Northwestern University, 2020-2021
Kenneth Hendricks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018-2019
Marc Rysman, Boston University, 2016-2017
Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University, 2014-2015
Joseph Harrington, University of Pennsylvania, 2012-2013
Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan, 2010-2011
David Sappington, University of Florida, 2008-2009
Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College, 2006-2007
Robert M. Feinberg, American University, 2004-2005
Robert T. Masson, Cornell University, 2002-2003
Stephen Martin, Purdue University, 2000-2001
John T. Scott, Dartmouth College, 1999-2000
John E. Kwoka, Northeastern University, 1998-1999
Paul Geroski, London Business School, 1997-1998
Joseph Farrell, University of California, Berkeley, 1996-1997
Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley, 1995-1996
Richard Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley, 1994-1995
Dennis Mueller, University of Vienna, 1993-1994
F. M. Scherer, Harvard University, 1992-1993
William S. Comanor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991-1992
W. G. Shepherd, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990-1991