Justin Johnson

Professor Justin Johnson is an economist and the Deane W. Malott Professor of Management at Cornell University’s Graduate School of Management. He has written extensively in the fields of industrial organization, microeconomics, and antitrust economics. Much of his research is motivated by events and issues in high-technology markets, including work on online platforms, the agency model of pricing, retail price-parity restrictions, digital advertising, open-source software, and anticompetitive use of algorithms. He has also examined product-line choices and pricing, retail competition and loss-leading, acqui-hiring, mergers, and more.

Professor Johnson has published his research in leading economics journals, for which he has won multiple awards. He is a past editor at both the Journal of Industrial Economics and International Journal of Industrial Organization and an associate editor at RAND Journal of Economics. He teaches business strategy to MBA students and has received multiple teaching awards.

Professor Johnson has discussed his research and its relevance to current matters of interest with governmental bodies and other parties around the world, including the US Department of Justice, US Federal Trade Commission, EU Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission, and UK Competition and Markets Authority.

Professor Johnson can be contacted by email through Michael A. Williams, a managing director at BRG.