Distinguished Fellow Award
This award is given annually in recognition of excellence in Research, Education, and Leadership in the field of Industrial Organization.
2026 Recipient
Sir John Vickers
University of Oxford All Souls College
John has made important contributions to many areas of industrial organization through his three books, three edited volumes, and over one hundred articles.
Professor Vickers has greatly enhanced our understanding of strategic races and innovation, privatization, the economics of price-discrimination, merger policy, and bank regulation through his extensive work in the field. In addition to these intellectual works, John has contributed to the public good: he served as chief economist of the Bank of England, Director of the UK Office of Fair Trading, president of the Royal Economic Society, and is currently Warden of All Souls College.
Past Recipients
2025
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago
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