Michael Ward is Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Arlington and Research Associate at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, Germany.

Michael Ward studied mathematics and economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago. Previous positions include Staff Economist at the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Assistant and Associate Professorships at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. He has had past affiliate research positions with Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA) in Brazil, with the Institute for Government and Public Affairs (IGPA) at the University of Illinois, with the Consortium for Research on Telecommunications Policy (CRTP), and with ZEW. He is a coeditor of Contemporary Economic Policy and has been a guest editor of Information Economics and Policy.

Michael Ward has worked as a professional economist in government, academia, and the private sector. His research interests include competition and innovation policy in high technology industries, especially information and communication technologies (ICTs) and pharmaceuticals. His research has appeared in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Law and Economics, Research Policy, and Journal of Industrial Economics. He is a coauthor of the textbook Managerial Economics: A Problem Solving Approach.

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William C. and Margaret M. Oehmig Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise. Ph.D., Wisconsin 1983.

Professor Froeb has taught the core Managerial Economics class in Vanderbilt's MBA programs for 25 years. He has been named “Outstanding Professor” of the Executive MBA program, an honor that he shared with his colleague and mentor, David Scheffman. His former student and textbook coauthor Brian McCann, has since pushed him out of the running for any teaching awards. The Fifth edition of their textbook, Managerial Economics: A Problem Solving Approach, was published by Cengage in 2018.

Professor Froeb has spent his professional life going in and out of academia and the government. As a government enforcer, he is exposed to interesting problems, and then has time to work on them when he returns to academia.

Today his models are used by agencies around the world to enforce competition laws. Professor Froeb has just returned to Vanderbilt after serving as chief economist of the Antitrust Division of US Department of Justice. Previously he served as chief economist at the Federal Trade Commission, staff economist at Justice, and taught at Tulane University.

Along with colleagues at the Dept. of Justice, Professor Froeb has helped develop CompetitionToolBox.com, a suite of interactive web apps designed to teach lay people (attorneys and judges) how oligopoly models work. The models provide a transparent mapping from evidence to prediction, which not only gives them credibility, but also gives lay attorneys and judges who rely on them an intuitive feel for how they work.

Mike Shor is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut.

Mike studied economics and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia and received his PhD in economics from Rutgers University. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management, where he twice was named the best professor by the graduating MBA class. He has taught classes in economic theory, game theory, and pricing.