DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

William Rogerson’s main research interests are industrial organization, antitrust, regulation, telecommunications, cost accounting and defense procurement.  At Northwestern he currently serves as Director of the Center for Business Institutions, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Industrial Organization, and Research Director for Competition, Anti-Trust and Regulation at the Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth.  He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and has worked as a consultant for a number of government agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission, Institute for Defense Analysis, Logistics Management Institute, Office of the Secretary of Defense (Program Analysis and Evaluation), RAND Corporation, and US Department of Justice.  He spent the 1998-99 academic year serving as Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission.