Mark Armstrong (economist)

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Mark Armstrong
BornDecember 1964 (age 59)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
University of Oxford
Doctoral advisorJames Mirrlees
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics
Sub-disciplineIndustrial organisation
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University of Southampton
University of Oxford
University College London

Christopher Mark Armstrong (born December 1964) FBA is a British economist, professor of economics at University College London and University Academic Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His research focuses on industrial organisation and the functioning of markets.

Education[edit]

Armstrong graduated with a BA in mathematics from Queens' College, Cambridge in 1987. He was a postgraduate at St John's College, Oxford, from 1987 to 1992, where he received an M.Phil. and D.Phil. in economics.[1]

Career[edit]

Armstrong's first academic position was as a lecturer in microeconomics at Cambridge University and fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He left for a professorship in economic policy at the University of Southampton in 1994 and was appointed fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1997. He then became a professor of economics at University College London in 2003 and left for his current position at the University of Oxford in 2011.[1][2]

The British Academy and the Econometric Society elected him to fellowship in 2007 and 2008, respectively.[2][3] He is also a fellow of the European Economic Association.[4]

He was managing editor and chair of the Review of Economic Studies and co-editor of the RAND Journal of Economics.[5][6]

Selected works[edit]

  • Armstrong, Mark (1998). "Network Interconnection in Telecommunications". The Economic Journal. 108 (448): 545–564. doi:10.1111/1468-0297.00304.
  • Armstrong, Mark (2006). "Competition in two-sided markets". The RAND Journal of Economics. 37 (3): 668–691. doi:10.1111/j.1756-2171.2006.tb00037.x.
  • Armstrong, Mark; Vickers, John (2018). "Multiproduct Pricing Made Simple". Journal of Political Economy. 126 (4): 1444–1471. doi:10.1086/697902. S2CID 18244751.
  • Armstrong, Mark; Vickers, John (2019). "Discriminating against Captive Customers". American Economic Review: Insights. 1 (3): 257–272. doi:10.1257/aeri.20180581. S2CID 53049320.
  • Armstrong, Mark; Cowan, Simon; Vickers, John (1994). Regulatory Reform: Economic Analysis and British Experience. ISBN 9780262011433.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Armstrong, Mark. "CVshort.pdf". Google Docs (linked from official website). Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Professor Mark Armstrong FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Fellows | The Econometric Society". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Fellows | EEA". www.eeassoc.org. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  5. ^ "History | The Review of Economic Studies". www.restud.com. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  6. ^ "The RAND Journal of Economics". Wiley Online Library. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1756-2171. Retrieved 17 January 2021.

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