Dr. Margaret Slade

Biography

Margaret Slade is Professor Emeritus at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia (UBC), where she taught for 20 years. She previously held the position of Leverhulme Professor of Industrial Economics at the University of Warwick in the UK. Slade's research focuses on applied problems in Industrial Organization, dealing primarily with data analysis and relationships in the market. She has provided advisory services to government agencies in several countries as well as to private parties. Originally working as a mathematician at Shell Development and the Geological Survey in New Zealand, she later pursued economics, obtaining her Ph.D. from George Washington University. Her recent work includes examining the effects of no-poaching clauses in the restaurant industry and the implications of vertical mergers in various sectors, emphasizing the importance of empirical data in understanding market structures and competition dynamics.

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