PhD Students
I served as the advisor for several PhD students and postdocs, in particular:
- Aslihan Asil — PhD/JD, Yale. Now an assistant professor at Duke Law School.
- Regina Seibel — PhD, University of Zürich (visiting Yale). Now an assistant professor at University of Toronto Rotman.
- Yifei Zhang — PhD, Toulouse (visiting Yale). Now an assistant professor at Peking University (HSBC Business School).
- Weicheng Min — PhD, Yale. Now an assistant professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
- Frédéric Schneider — Postdoc, Yale. First accepted a position at University of Cambridge Judge Business School.
- Jim Ostler — PhD, UCLA Anderson. First accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
- George Georgiadis — PhD, UCLA Anderson. Now a tenured faculty member at Northwestern Kellogg.
- Shaun Davies — PhD, UCLA Anderson. Now a tenured faculty member at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder.
- Shogo Hamasaki — PhD, UCLA. Now a Vice President at Analysis Group.
PhD Courses
I recently taught a PhD course in Emerging Issues in Competition Economics and Antitrust. If you want the TeX files, send me an email.
At UCLA (Anderson & Economics) I taught a popular PhD course in Organizational Economics. The syllabus is now a bit dated.
MBA & Executive Education
At BU Questrom I won the MBA Core Faculty Award in 2024 and 2025. At Yale SOM I won the Elective Teaching Award in every year of eligibility (2014, 2018, 2023 [on leave in 2022]). I was chosen as one of Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 business school professors in the world and named as one of the best Yale SOM professors.
Together with Kevin Williams and Fiona Scott Morton I taught the elective courses in Competitive Strategy (MGT 525) and Competition Economics & Policy (MGT 589).
Together with Shane Frederick I taught the elective course in Behavioral Economics (MGT 854), also integrated with Nick Barberis's Behavioral Finance course.
I co-authored a case on Prodigy Finance, chosen as one of the most popular case studies of 2019.
Twitter / X
I tweet about teaching- and research-related issues at @florianederer. One of my favorite policy issues is the increasing consolidation of the US ski resort industry and the rising cost of US resort skiing.
The Wire
In my teaching I draw on economics and strategy examples from The Wire, in particular the character Stringer Bell. If you would like the complete list (including clips from Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Allen Iverson, The Daily Show, and some game shows) please feel free to email me. Here is some press coverage of my teaching using clips from The Wire.
Porter's 5 Forces vs Barbra Streisand
To make the 5 Forces framework particularly memorable I produced the following video remix of Duck Sauce's dance hit "Barbra Streisand" for my competitive strategy class at UCLA.
Happy Teaching!