Distinguished Fellow Award
This award is given annually in recognition of excellence in Research, Education, and Leadership in the field of Industrial Organization.
2025 Recipient
Chad Syverson
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Chad Syverson's path‑breaking work on productivity, market structure, and entry deterrence has reshaped IO and influenced macro, trade, and digitization.
Professor Syverson is best known for his research on productivity and the role of market structure and product substitutability in explaining productivity variation across firms and markets. His work has had major impact far beyond IO—including macro, trade, environmental economics, and the economics of digitization. He has also advanced IO through research on entry deterrence, search frictions, and other topics. The prize committee of Ariel Pakes, Julie Mortimer, and Katja Seim believes these wide‑ranging contributions make him an outstanding Distinguished Fellow.
Past Recipients
2024
Kenneth Hendricks, University of Wisconsin
2023
Paul Klemperer, University of Oxford
2022
Judith Chevalier, Yale University
2020 (awarded in 2021)
Michael Riordan, Columbia University
2019
Glenn Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2018
Nancy Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2017
Steven T. Berry, Yale University
2016
Michael Whinston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015
Severin Borenstein, University of California, Berkeley
2014
Dennis W. Carlton, University of Chicago
2013
Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley
2012
Richard Schmalensee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011
R. Preston McAfee, Yahoo! Research
2010
John Sutton, London School of Economics
2009
Robert H. Porter, Northwestern University
2008
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University
2007
Paul Joskow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2006
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University
2005
Oliver E. Williamson, University of California, Berkeley
2004
Dennis C. Mueller, University of Vienna
2003
William S. Comanor, University of California, Santa Barbara
2002
W. G. Shepherd, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2001
Richard E. Caves, Harvard University
2000
Jean Tirole, Institut d’Economie Industrielle
1999
F. M. Scherer, Harvard University