Professor Robert Clark is the Stephen J.R. Smith Chair in Economic Policy in the department of Economics at Queen’s University. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Western Ontario. He specializes in industrial organization and has made contributions to competition policy, regulation, and the industrial organization of financial markets. Professor Clark is also an affiliated professor at HEC Montreal, and a Bank of Canada Fellow.
 
Professor Clark’s research focuses on developing a better understanding of anticompetitive behaviour on the part of firms, and the government response aimed at protecting consumers from these practices. His research has mostly centered on two such activities: agreements amongst competitors to fix prices and mergers amongst rival firms.
 
His research has been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the RAND Journal of Economics, and the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. His contributions have been rewarded with a number of research prizes, including the best paper of 2015 by the Association of Competition Economics and the 2020 Public Utility Research Prize for the best paper in regulatory economics at the International Industrial Organization Conference.