Yale School of Management - Faculty

Dean & William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management

Edward A. Snyder is Dean and William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Management. As Dean, he has overall responsibility for the school’s academic programs, for enhancing its reputation, and for strengthening its finances. The school’s objectives are to become and become known as: (i) the business school that best leverages its home university– eminent and purposeful Yale University; (ii) the most global U.S. business school; and (iii) the best source of elevated leaders for escalating complexity in all sectors.

Mr. Snyder began his professional career as an economist with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. He earned a PhD in Economics and an MA in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. He began his academic career at the University of Michigan where he developed programs in Central Europe, China, India, and Russia. His research and teaching is focused on industrial organization, antitrust economics, law and economics, and financial institutions.

Most recently, Mr. Snyder was the Dean and George Shultz Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. While Dean he co-taught Economic Analysis of Major Policy Issues with Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy.

Selected Publications
"Five Easy Questions," in Leadership Development for a Global World, J. Canals, ed., Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., forthcoming

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

"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), 588-625, 1995

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

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

Reprinted in Pricing Tactics, Strategies, and Outcomes, M. Waldman & J. Johnson, ed., 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 Popular Press
"Yale Redefines What It Means to Be Global," Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2012

"Yale's Big, Audacious Global Bet," Poets & Quants, February 8, 2012

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