Florian Ederer
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| Occupation | Economist, academic, and author |
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| Education | B.A. in Economics and Management M.Phil. in Economics Ph.D. in Economics |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Institutions | Boston University |
Florian P. Ederer is an economist, academic, and author. He is the Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor in Markets, Public Policy, and Law at Boston University.
Ederer's research work has focused on innovation, organizational economics, competition policy, and antitrust, with particular attention to how firms shape innovation and market behavior. He is the recipient of the Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award from the Academy of Management and the Competition Policy Award from Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC).
Early Life and Education
Ederer was born and raised in Austria. He earned his undergraduate degree in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford's Worcester College in 2002. He completed his M.Phil. in Economics at Oxford's Nuffield College in 2004 and received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009.[1]
Education
Ederer completed his B.A. in Economics and Management and M.Phil. in Economics at the University of Oxford in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009.[2]
Career
From 2009 to 2013, Ederer was an assistant professor at the University of California. Subsequently, he was an assistant professor until 2019 and an associate professor from 2019 to 2023 at Yale University. Since then, he has been the Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor in Markets, Public Policy, and Law at Boston University.[2] He is a research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute.[3]
Research
Ederer's research has focused on industrial organization,[4] innovation economics,[5] and organizational economics,[6] He has studied how managerial incentives and ownership structures influence firms' innovation.[7] He has also examined topics in experimental economics,[8] executive incentives,[7] opaque incentive schemes,[9] trust and communication in economic interactions,[10] and the anonymous online forum EJMR used by economists.[11]
Along with Colleen Cunningham and Song Ma, Ederer has co-authored the article "Killer Acquisitions", in which he showed that some pharmaceutical acquisitions reduce competition by discontinuing overlapping drug development in acquired projects.[12][13] Firms prefer acquiring competing products over developing them internally due to cannibalization incentives.[14] For this paper, he has received the Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award,[15] the Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize,[16] the Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award,[17] and the Competition Policy Award.[18] The paper was cited in the Biden administration's 2021 competition Executive Order[19] and in a U.S. congressional report on digital market competition.[20]
Ederer has also received an award for his research on common ownership.[15] This work examined how common ownership affects managerial incentives[21] and how it shapes acquisition activity and merger incentives. His research found that common ownership can raise corporate profits while reducing consumer welfare through weaker competition and higher deadweight loss.[22]
Awards and honors
- 2018 – Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award, Academy of Management[17]
- 2020 – Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize, Industrial Organization Society[16]
- 2020 – Competition Policy Award, Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC)[18]
- 2021 – Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award, American Antitrust Institute[15]
- 2023 – Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship, American Antitrust Institute[15]
Bibliography
Books
- Campbell, Arthur; Cohen, Moshe; Ederer, Florian; Spinnewijn, Johannes (2007). Solutions Manual to Accompany Contract Theory. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262532990.
Selected articles
- Ederer, Florian; Manso, Gustavo (2013). "Is Pay for Performance Detrimental to Innovation?". Management Science. 59 (7): 1496–1513. doi:10.1287/mnsc.1120.1683.
- Bursztyn, Leonardo; Ederer, Florian; Ferman, Bruno; Yuchtman, Noam (2014). > "Understanding Mechanisms Underlying Peer Effects: Evidence From a Field Experiment on Financial Decisions". Econometrica. 82 (4): 1273–1301. doi:10.3982/ECTA11991.
- Cunningham, Colleen; Ederer, Florian; Ma, Song (2021). "Killer Acquisitions". Journal of Political Economy. 129 (3): 649–702. doi:10.1086/712506.
- Antón, Miguel; Ederer, Florian; Giné, Mireia; Schmalz, Martin (2023). "Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives". Journal of Political Economy. 131 (5): 1294–1355. doi:10.1086/722414.
References
- ↑ "Florian Ederer". florianederer.github.io. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Florian P. Ederer" (PDF). bu.edu. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
- ↑ "Professor Florian P Ederer". ecgi.global. 4 March 2024. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
- ↑ Howell, Sabrina T. (2024). "Government Intervention in Innovation". Annual Review of Financial Economics. 16: 378. doi:10.1146/annurev-financial-082123-105722.
- ↑ Manso, Gustavo (2011). "Motivating Innovation". The Journal of Finance. 66 (5): 7, 40. Bibcode:2011JFin...66.1823M. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.2011.01688.x. hdl:1721.1/65948.
- ↑ Griffin, Dale; Li, Kai; Xu, Ting (2021). "Board Gender Diversity and Corporate Innovation: International Evidence". Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 56 (1): 6. doi:10.1017/S002210901900098X.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Dai, Xin; Qiu, Yue (2021). "Common Ownership and Corporate Social Responsibility". The Review of Corporate Finance Studies. 10 (3): 5. SSRN 3668483.
- ↑ Hoffman, Mitchell; Stanton, Christopher (2025). "Chapter 9 - People, practices, and productivity: a review of new advances in personnel economics". Handbook of Labor Economics. Vol. 6. Elsevier Science. p. 27. doi:10.1016/bs.heslab.2025.07.005. ISBN 978-0-443-29766-3.
- ↑ "How Can You Make Incentives More Effective? Make Them Opaque". insights.som.yale.edu. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
- ↑ "New Study Shows that Trust Can Last". insights.som.yale.edu. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
- ↑ Ajzenman, Nicolás; Ferman, Bruno; Sant'Anna, Pedro C. (2025). "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter". American Economic Review: Insights. 7 (3): 5. doi:10.1257/aeri.20240298.
- ↑ Shapiro, Carl (2019). "Protecting Competition in the American Economy: Merger Control, Tech Titans, Labor Markets". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 33 (3): 78. doi:10.1257/jep.33.3.69.
- ↑ Reenen, John Van (2018). "Increasing differences between firms: market power and the macro-economy". CEP Discussion Papers: 57.
- ↑ "Killer acquisitions lead to decreased innovation and competition in the U.S. prescription drug market". equitablegrowth.org. 25 September 2019. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 "Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship". antitrustinstitute.org. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize". indorgsociety.org. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award". str.aom.org. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 "AdC launches Competition Policy Award". concorrencia.pt. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
- ↑ "Are 'Killer Acquisitions' by Tech Giants a Real Threat to Competition?". thecgo.org. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
- ↑ "Congressional Report on Tech Competition Cites Yale SOM Faculty". som.yale.edu. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
- ↑ López, Ángel L.; Vives, Xavier (2019). "Overlapping Ownership, R&D Spillovers, and Antitrust Policy". Journal of Political Economy. 127 (5): 2402. doi:10.1086/701811.
- ↑ "The Rise of the Mutual Fund Is Reducing Corporate Competition and Hurting Consumers". Yale School of Management Insights. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
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