Kevin R. Williams

Curriculum Vitae

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Appointments

Yale School of Management
  • Professor of Economics, 2025–present
  • Associate Professor of Economics, 2019–2024 (on leave 2019–2020)
  • Assistant Professor of Economics, 2014–2019
Yale University
  • Affiliated Faculty, Department of Economics, 2016–present
Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics
  • Research Staff, 2016–present
Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design
  • Faculty Fellow, 2023–present
National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Research Associate, 2025–present
  • Faculty Research Fellow, 2019–2025
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
  • Research Economist, Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute, 2019–2020

Editorial Positions

The Journal of Law and Economics
  • Editor, 2026–present
Quantitative Marketing and Economics
  • Co-Editor, 2026–present

Education

Publications

2024

2023

2022

2019

2018

Working Papers

Research in Progress

Research Products and Resting Papers

Presentations

Includes scheduled talks.

Invited Seminars

2025
University of Tokyo, University of Georgia, University of New South Wales
2024
Carnegie Mellon University, Federal Trade Commission, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Boston University, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2023
Georgetown University, University of Pennsylvania-Econ/Wharton, University of Mississippi, Toulouse School of Economics, National University of Singapore
2022
Yale University, Princeton University, University of Maryland, Sciences Po, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Norwegian School of Economics, Purdue University, Northwestern University, Department of Justice
2021
Berkeley-Chicago Behavioral Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Cornell University, Stanford University-GSB (Operations), Harvard University
2020
University of Arizona, Yale University, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
2019
University of Chicago-Booth (Marketing), Penn State University, University of Minnesota, Stanford University, University of Rochester-Simon (Marketing), Texas A&M University, Boston University-Questrom (Marketing)
2018
Princeton University, University of Tokyo, Columbia University, University of Utah-Eccles (Business Economics), University of Pennsylvania-Wharton (Marketing)
2017
University of Chicago-Booth (Microeconomics), Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, CREST (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics), University of Texas-Austin
2016
Harvard University and MIT, Boston College, Federal Trade Commission, University of Pennsylvania-Econ/Wharton
2015
Northeastern University, Singapore Management University, National University of Singapore, Stanford GSB (Marketing), Department of Justice, University of Maryland, University of Toronto-Rotman (Economics), Stanford University, University of British Columbia-Sauder (Strategy)
2014
Yale School of Management (Economics, Marketing), University of Chicago-Booth (Marketing), Georgetown University, University of British Columbia, Northwestern University-Kellogg (Strategy), University of Rochester-Simon (Economics, Marketing), Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Indiana University, Indiana University-Kelley (BEPP), University of Minnesota-Carlson (Marketing), University of Wisconsin-Madison
2013
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Conference Presentations

Presenter unless marked D (discussant) or P, D (both).

2026
Eighteenth Annual Microeconomics Conference, keynote (Washington, DC), Triangle Microeconomics Conference (Chapel Hill), KU Leuven Industrial Organization Workshop (Leuven), NBER Summer Meetings (Boston) [D]
2025
Asia-Pacific Industrial Organization Society (Brisbane)
2024
UBC Summer IO Conference (Vancouver), Cowles Models & Measurement (New Haven) [D], NYU Stern IO Day (New York University), Quantitative Marketing and Economics Conference (Stanford)
2023
NBER Winter Meetings (Stanford), Chinese Economists Society 2023 North America Conference (Virtual) [D], Behavioral IO & Marketing Symposium (Ann Arbor) [D], CEPR-JIE Conference on Applied Industrial Organization (Cambridge), Montreal Summer IO Conference 2023 (Montreal)
2022
North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (Virtual), Barcelona GSE Summer Forum (Barcelona), Quantitative Marketing and Economics Conference (Rochester), Federal Trade Commission Microeconomics Conference (Washington)
2021
North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (Virtual) [D], NBER Summer Meetings (Virtual), NBER Organizational Economics (Boston)
2019
North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (Atlanta), Faculty Development Forum (St. Louis), SICS (Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy) (Berkeley), The Industrial Organization Research Group (University of California-Los Angeles), Asia-Pacific Industrial Organization Society (APIOS) (Tokyo)
2018
North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (Philadelphia) [D], International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC) (Indianapolis) [P, D], Behavioral Industrial Organization & Marketing Symposium (Ann Arbor), Barcelona GSE Summer Forum (Barcelona)
2017
North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (Chicago) [P, D], CREST Conference “Economics of Antitrust and Consumer Protection” (Paris)
2016
SITE (Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics) (Stanford), SICS (Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy) (Berkeley), NBER Summer Meetings (Boston)
2015
Tuck Winter IO Conference (Dartmouth), NBER Winter Meetings (Stanford), ZEW Conference (Mannheim) [P, D], Marketing Science (Baltimore), Econometric Society World Congress (Montreal), Empirical Microeconomics Workshop (Banff) [P, D], NYU Stern IO Day (New York University)
2014
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (Minneapolis), Marketing Dynamics (Las Vegas), European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (Milan)
2013
Annual Graduate Student Conference (Washington University, St. Louis)

Honors and Grants

Professional Activities

Selected Media Coverage

Teaching

Yale School of Management

University of Minnesota

Certifications

Aviation

Scuba