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John Mayo

Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

mayoj@georgetown.edu202.687.6972 (Office)

Professor & Elsa Carlson McDonough Chair in Business Administration

Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy

Executive Director

Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy

Biography

John Mayo is the Elsa Carlson McDonough Chair of Business Administration and Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy at McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. He is also the Executive Director for the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. His research interests lie in the application of microeconomics to public policy. He has published over one hundred journal articles, monographs, and book chapters as well as a comprehensive textbook in regulation and antitrust.  He has held a number of senior administrative positions at Georgetown including a term as Dean of the McDonough School of Business, and has served as a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley and Stanford University. He has testified before Congress, state legislatures and regulatory bodies on a number of matters including monopolization, price fixing, mergers, and regulatory policy. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and his B.A. from Hendrix College.

EDUCATION
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Honorary Doctorate in Economics, 2007, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland​​

Ph.D., Economics, 1982, Washington University in St. Louis
Dissertation: "Diversification and Performance in the U.S. Energy Industry"
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M.A., Economics, 1979, Washington University in St. Louis ​

B.A., Economics, 1977, Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
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Industrial Organization

Regulatory and Antitrust Policy

Applied Microeconomics

Econometrics

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Recent â€‹Publications
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  1. “The Report of My Death was an Exaggeration: Business Dynamism in the United States,” The Economists’ Voice, forthcoming.

  2. “Customer Switching, Firm Entry and Regulatory Policy: Evidence from Retail Electric Market Restructuring,” Economic Inquiry (with Jeffrey T. Macher and Robert Press), forthcoming.

  3. The Evolution of Judicial Standards: Evidence from Litigated Merger Trials,” (with Jeffrey T. Macher, David E.M. Sappington and Mark Whitener), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2024)

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U.S. Freight Rail Economics And Policy:
 Are We On The Right Track? 

(co-editor with Jeffrey Macher)
c2019

Routledge Studies in Transport Analysis: New York, NY.

Government and Business:
The Economics of Antitrust and Regulation

(with David L. Kaserman)

c1995

Dryden Press : ​Fort Worth, TX.

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