Professor Sir John Vickers

FBA

Economics

The Warden since 2008

Sir John Vickers has been Warden of All Souls College since October 2008. He studied PPE at Oxford University, where, after a period working in the oil industry, he taught economics and was Drummond Professor of Political Economy from 1991 to 2008. He was Chief Economist at the Bank of England and a member of the Monetary Policy Committee 1998-2000; Director General/Chairman of the Office of Fair Trading 2000-05; President of the Royal Economic Society 2007-10; Chair of the Independent Commission on Banking 2010-11; and President of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (2018-2020). His research interests, which combine theory and policy, mainly concern competition and regulation.

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Research Areas

Economics of Industrial Organization

Competition Policy

Financial Regulation

Selected Publications

‘Multiproduct cost passthrough: Edgeworth’s paradox revisited’

Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 131, 2645-2665 (with Mark Armstrong).

‘Patterns of competitive interaction’

Econometrica, 2022, 90, 153-191 (with Mark Armstrong)

‘Competition for imperfect consumers’

International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2021, 79, 102739.

‘Discriminating against captive customers’

American Economic Review: Insights, 2019, 1, 257- 272 (with Mark Armstrong)

‘Multiproduct pricing made simple’

Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126, 1444-1471 (with Mark Armstrong)