Hi, my name is

Mike Ward.

I'm an economist intersted in information technology, pharmaceuticals, and video games

I work as a professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Arlington and as a research associate at the Digital Economics Department of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, Germany.

About Me

I have worked as a professional economist in government, academia, and the private sector. My research interests include competition and innovation policy in high technology industries, most recently in the video games industry.

My research has appeared in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Law and Economics, Research Policy, and Journal of Industrial Economics. I am a coauthor of the textbook Managerial Economics: A Problem Solving Approach. My research addresses economic consequences of high technology innovations, especially in Information Techonology.

My recent research has focused on the evolution of the video game industry.

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