Valerie Suslow

Bio

Dr. Valerie Suslow is an Adjunct Professor at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William & Mary.  She is also a Professor of Economics at the Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School, which she joined in 2015.  Prior to her move to Johns Hopkins, she spent her academic career at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, as Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, and the Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law. Dr. Suslow has served in several academic leadership roles, including Senior Associate Dean for MBA Programs at Michigan Ross and Vice Dean for Faculty & Research at Johns Hopkins Carey.

Her extensive teaching experience includes Applied Microeconomics in MBA (full-time, evening/weekend) and Executive MBA programs, as well as serving as faculty advisor for numerous MBA experiential (field project) teams.  For many years at Michigan Ross she also taught an MBA elective on Competitive Tactics and Antitrust Policy.  At William & Mary’s Mason School, she teaches Managerial Economics & Public Policy in the EMBA program.

Her research area is in the field of industrial organization, with a focus on the economics of explicit price fixing by companies and associated antitrust policy enforcement. She has studied the determinants of cartel stability, international cartel operations, and how vertical relationships between firms can support horizontal collusion. Most recently, she has explored how the potential for coordination among merging firms should be treated in merger policy guidelines. Her research has been published in academic and policy journals, including the Antitrust Bulletin, Competition Policy International, Journal of Law and Economics, and the Review of Industrial Organization, as well as the Antitrust Law Journal, where she serves on the editorial board as Economics Vice Chair.

Dr. Suslow earned her PhD in economics from Stanford University and her undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her awards include the Ross School’s Andy Andrews Distinguished Service Award and Victor L. Bernard Faculty Award for Leadership in Teaching, and the Graduate Business Curriculum Roundtable – Leadership in Graduate Business Education Curricular Innovation Award.

Areas of Expertise

• Industrial Organization
• Price-Fixing and Antitrust Policy