Joseph Harrington

Joseph Harrington is the Patrick T. Harker Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and is a leading authority on collusion and cartels. He has published more than 100 articles in economics, political science, and general science journals and presented before more than a dozen competition authorities including those of Chile, EU, Japan, New Zealand, and the U.S.. He has given keynote addresses on the topic of collusion on five continents including the Heath Memorial Lecture at the U. of Florida Levin College of Law, at the Mandela Institute Conference in South Africa, and at the annual meetings of the European Industrial Economics Conference, the Chilean Economic Association, and the German Economic Association. His research has received several awards including the Antitrust Writing Award for Best Concerted Practices and Honorable Mention for the Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for antitrust scholarship. He has served as President of the Industrial Organization Society and has been a member of the editorial boards of all major journals in industrial organization. He is currently an editor at Economics Letters. He is the co-author of the leading textbook Economics of Regulation and Antitrust and has authored The Theory of Collusion and Competition Policy and co-authored Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Why They Form, How They Operate, and How to Prosecute Them. A current project is co-editing a volume on cartel cases titled Cartels Diagnosed: New Insight on Collusion which will be published by Cambridge University Press.


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