Yale School of Management - Faculty

Dean & William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management

Edward A. Snyder is the Dean and William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Management.

Snyder is an accomplished business school dean, having previously served in that role at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is an economist with expertise in industrial organization and antitrust economics.

Snyder served as dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business from 2001 until 2010. Under his leadership, Booth almost doubled its number of endowed professorships and more than tripled its scholarship assistance to students. Snyder oversaw the move to the school’s new Hyde Park campus on time and on budget, expanded the school’s presence in Singapore, and established a new campus in London. In 2008, Snyder announced a $300 million gift from Chicago alumnus David Booth and his family, which was the largest donation in the history of the University of Chicago and the largest gift to any business school in the world. In recognition of this gift, the school was renamed in Booth’s honor. During Snyder’s tenure, the school also successfully completed a capital campaign and more than doubled its endowment.

Snyder started his professional career as an economist with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he served for four years. He began his academic career on the faculty at the business school of the University of Michigan, where he also served as Senior Associate Dean and founding director of the Davidson Institute, which focuses on emerging markets. Before returning to the University of Chicago in 2001, Snyder was the Dean and Charles C. Abbott Professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business from 1998 to 2001. At Darden, he directed an expansion of the school’s MBA program, worked to improve the diversity of the student body, significantly increased the school’s executive education offerings, and led highly successful fundraising efforts, including a record gift from a single donor.

Snyder received his MA in public policy, in 1978, and PhD in economics, in 1984, from the University of Chicago. His research interests include industrial organization, antitrust economics, law and economics, and financial institutions. He has published in many academic journals, and at Chicago Booth he has co-taught "Economic Analysis of Major Policy Issues" with fellow economists Gary Becker, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1992, and Kevin Murphy, a 2005 MacArthur Fellow. He serves on the Colby College Board of Trustees.

Selected Articles
"Proof of Common Impact in Antitrust Litigation: The Value of Regression Analysis" (with P. Cremieux and I. Simmons), The George Mason Law Review, 939-967, Summer, 2010

"Transactional Structures of Bank Privatizations in Central Europe and Russia" (with A. Meyendorff), Journal of Comparative Economics, 5-30, August, 1997

"Efficient Assignment of Rights to Sue for Antitrust Damages," Journal of Law & Economics, Vol. 28, 469-482, May, 1985. Reprinted in The Journal of Reprints for Antitrust Law and Economics, Vol. 25, No. 2, 969-982,1995

"United States v. United Shoe Machine Corporation: On the Merits" (with S.E. Masten), Journal of Law & Economics, Vol. 36, 33-70, April,1993

Reprinted in Transaction Cost Economics, vol. 2, O. Williamson and S. Masten, eds., (Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., London), 1995, pp. 588-625

Reprinted in Case Studies in Contracting and Organization, S. Masten, ed., (Oxford University Press), 1996, pp. 224-254

Reprinted in Journal of Reprints for Antitrust Law and Economics, issue on Landmark Antitrust Decisions Revisited, 26, 1997, pp. 643-680

Reprinted in Pricing Tactics, Strategies, and Outcomes, (M. Waldman & J. Johnson, ed.). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2007

"Misuse of the Antitrust Laws: The Competitor Plaintiff" (with T.E. Kauper), Michigan Law Review, vol. 90, 551-603, December, 1991

Reprinted in The Journal of Reprints for Antitrust Law and Economics, vol. 25, no. 2, (1995), pp. 657-709

Selected Working Papers
"Napsterizing Pharmaceuticals: Access, Innovation, and Welfare" (with J.W. Hughes and M.J. Moore)

"Global Antitrust Enforcement" (with P. Cremieux)

"The Organization of Global Business Schools"

Education
BA Colby College, 1975
MA University of Chicago, 1978
PhD University of Chicago, 1984