Prof. Ellen V Muir

Ellen Muir is an Assistant Professor in the Applied Economics group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Profesor Muir primarily studies the behavior of firms with market power, including how these firms design and sell their products, procure inputs and hire workers. Her research aims to improve the design of regulatory interventions, property rights and antitrust and competition policy.

Muir is a microeconomic theorist with a focus on mechanism design, market design, and industrial organization. Her recent publications and working papers include an optimal lockdown management plan for an epidemic and the optimal design of rights related to the control of an economic resource.