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Dr. Robert Clark is a Professor and Stephen J.R. Smith Chair in Economic Policy at Queen's University's Department of Economics (Faculty of Arts and Science). He holds an affiliated professorship at HEC Montréal's Department of Applied Economics and is a Bank of Canada Fellow (2022-2026). His research focuses on antitrust, competition policy, financial markets, and industrial organization. Clark has contributed to landmark studies on cartels, algorithmic pricing, and banking regulation.
Education: PhD (2003) and MA (1998) in Economics from the University of Western Ontario, and HBSc (1997) in Quantitative Methods in Economics from the University of Toronto.
Research interests include collusion detection, banking fragility, algorithmic competition, and regulatory policy. He has received awards for his work on merger effects and algorithmic pricing, including the 2020 Public Utility Research Prize. Clark advises the John Deutsch Institute and serves as a fellow at CIRANO.
He has organized major conferences such as the Montreal Summer IO Conference series (2012–2025) and sessions on Competition Policy at the Canadian Economic Association meetings (2021–2024). His research bridges theoretical models and empirical evidence, addressing real-world economic challenges like cartel behavior and macroprudential policies.
