On October 16, 2026, the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois will host the Kinkead Lecture in Economics. The Kinkead Lecture series is sponsored by the Kinkead Fund, which supports research on industrial organization, innovation, technological change, and market structure.
Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago
Tariffs, Supply Chains, and Prices
Friday, Oct. 16
3:30 p.m.
134 Temple Buell Hall
Professor Ali Hortaçsu is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He is an empirical economist whose research spans industrial organization, econometrics, market design, and applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on auctions, digital platforms, financial markets, energy markets, and consumer behavior.
Prof. Hortaçsu joined the University of Chicago in 2001 as an assistant professor of economics and has been a member of the faculty ever since. He has also held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Yale University, and Northwestern University. In addition to his research and teaching, he has served as co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy and the RAND Journal of Economics, and co-edited Volumes 4 and 5 of the Handbook of Industrial Organization. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
His research examines how markets function and how firms and consumers make decisions in complex economic environments. He has conducted influential empirical studies of online auctions, e-commerce, financial and electricity markets, consumer search, pricing, supply chains, and market design. He has published more than 50 articles in leading scholarly journals, including Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Journal of Finance. He is also the co-author of Structural Econometric Methods in Industrial Organization and Quantitative Marketing (Princeton University Press, 2023) and co-editor of Volumes 4 and 5 of the Handbook of Industrial Organization (Elsevier, 2021).
Prof. Hortaçsu is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received numerous honors, including the Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science and the WFA Two Sigma Award for the best paper in investment management. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.