Luke M. Froeb
William C. Oehmig Chair in Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Vanderbilt University
Luke Froeb is the William C. Oehmig Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on industrial organization, antitrust economics, and applied econometrics, particularly merger analysis and competition-policy enforcement. His work develops economic models used by enforcement agencies to evaluate mergers and anticompetitive conduct.
At Vanderbilt University, Froeb teaches managerial economics in the M.B.A. and executive-education programs. Earlier in his career, he served as assistant U.S. attorney general for economics in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where he oversaw economic analysis of merger and conduct investigations. He also served as director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics.
Previously, Froeb worked as an economist in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and held a fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School. He began his academic career as an assistant professor of economics at Tulane University.
Froeb is the co-author of the textbook “Managerial Economics: A Problem-Solving Approach.”
He has received honors including the Federal Trade Commission Award for Distinguished Service and multiple teaching awards at Vanderbilt University, including the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence and executive-M.B.A. outstanding-professor awards.
Froeb earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor’s from Stanford University.
