
John Mayo
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
mayoj@georgetown.edu, 202.687.6972 (Office)
Professor & Elsa Carlson McDonough Chair in Business Administration
Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy
Executive Director
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"​
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
Recent ​Publications
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"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, forthcoming.
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"Understanding Early-Stage Merger Investigations: What Drives the Antitrust Agencies?" (with Robert Press and Mark Whitener), Review of Industrial Organization, 67 (August 2025): 133-159.
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"The Role of Antitrust Policy on the Composition of Mergers: Further Reflections on 'Stealth Consolidation'" (with Robert Press), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 101 (July 2025): 1-11.
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Books​
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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.