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Robert Feinberg Professor Economics

Degrees
PhD, Economics, University of Virginia
BA, University of Pennsylvania

Bio
Professor Feinberg received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and PhD from the University of Virginia. He taught for ten years on the faculty of Pennsylvania State University, has served as an economist with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the International Trade Commission, and has been at American University since 1989, serving as Economics Department Chair from 1996 to 2000, and 2012 to 2013. He has been a visiting research fellow at the International Institute of Management in Berlin, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Limerick (Ireland), a Program Director for Economics at the National Science Foundation, a Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and a Visiting Scholar at the World Trade Organization. He is a past President of the Industrial Organization Society, former Board member of the Southern Economic Association, served as a co-editor of the Southern Economic Journal for many years and is currently an editor of the Review of Industrial Organization.
See Also
Department of Economics
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • ECON-346 Compet,Reg & Business Strateg

  • ECON-400 Inter Microecon with Calculus

Spring 2025

  • ECON-400 Inter Microecon with Calculus

  • ECON-600 Microeconomics

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

Professor Feinberg was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Limerick (Ireland), a Fellow of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, and the 2006 recipient of American University's Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Other Professional Contributions.

Selected Publications

  • “Mutual Forbearance under Decentralized Managerial Decision-making” (with Nathan Larson), International Journal of Industrial Organization, forthcoming.
  • “State-Level Antitrust Enforcement: Revisiting the Determinants” (with Kara Reynolds), Review of Industrial Organization, 2024 (online), 14 pp.
  • “Canadian Antitrust and Antidumping Enforcement: Determinants and Effects,” Journal of Industry, Competition, and Trade, Vol. 23, November 2023, pp. 309-327.
  • “Does a Guaranteed Basic Income Encourage Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Alaska” (with Daniel Kuehn), Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 57, No. 3, November 2020, pp. 607-626.
  • "Guaranteed Non-Labor Income and Labor Supply: The Effect of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend" (with Daniel Kuehn), BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2018.
  • “Do States Free-Ride in Antitrust Enforcement?” (with Thomas Husted), Economic Inquiry, Vol. 51, No. 1, January 2013, pp. 997-1001.
  • “The Spread of Antidumping Regimes and the Role of Retaliation in Filings” (with Kara Reynolds), Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 72, No. 4, April 2006, pp. 877-890. 
  • “The Funding of Economics Research: Does Social Capital Matter for Success at the National Science Foundation?” (with Gregory Price), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 86, February 2004, pp. 245-252.

Research Interests

Recent work has analyzed antitrust and antidumping enforcement in the US, implications of multi-market contact among firms, and guaranteed non-labor income in Alaska.

Professional Services

Professor Feinberg served as an economist with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the International Trade Commission, and has been at American University since 1989, serving as Economics Department Chair from 1996 to 2000 and 2012 to 2013. He has been a visiting research fellow at the International Institute of Management in Berlin, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Limerick (Ireland), a Program Director for Economics at the National Science Foundation, a Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and a Visiting Scholar at the World Trade Organization. He is a past President of the Industrial Organization Society, former Board member of the Southern Economic Association, served as a co-editor of the Southern Economic Journal for many years and is currently an editor of the Review of Industrial Organization.