Andrew Daughety

Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Social and Natural Sciences and Professor of Economics, Emeritus

Professor Daughety applies microeconomic theory in the areas of industrial organization and law and economics.  His recent work has concerned: incentives for firms to signal or disclose quality that might otherwise be unobservable by consumers; products liability and safety; how courts aggregate information; litigation funding in the market for legal services; privacy; and informal sanctions and plea bargaining.  He is a former co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization and a former associate editor of the RAND Journal of Economics.