Welcome, new Empirical IO Assistant Professor, Joshua Higbee!

The Department of Economics welcomes new Empirical IO Assistant Professor, Joshua Higbee! Josh will start in August of 2025.
Josh comes from the University of Chicago. His research interests are in industrial organization and quantitative marketing. More broadly, his research is on platforms and the role that information plays in how they function. He is currently working on projects related to demand for market data on financial exchanges, search and learning across online platforms, identification of agent beliefs in learning models, and bargaining in mergers and acquisitions contracts.