Matthew Backus

Matthew Backus (he/him) is an associate professor of economics at Columbia Business School, a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. An empirical industrial organization economist, he is an expert on antitrust, auctions, bargaining, and productivity. He earned his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan after a brief career in organizing, and now lives in the Upper West Side.