Robert Porter
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor
PhD: Princeton University, 1981
Robert Porter has conducted research on theoretical and empirical studies of collusion, price wars, and bidders’ behavior in auctions. His research includes studies of the federal auctions of offshore oil and gas leases, and of procurement auctions for highway construction and for school milk. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Game Theory Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2009 Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society. He was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management in 2018. He was the President of the Econometric Society in 2015 and President of the Industrial Organization Society in 2020 and 2021. He is a former co-editor of Econometrica, the RAND Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, and the Handbook of Industrial Organization. He is an editor of Microeconomic Insights.
