Scott Orr
Associate Professor, Strategy & Business Economics Division
Scott Orr is Associate Professor in the Strategy and Business Economics Division at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. He earned a Bachelors and Master's degrees in economics at Queen's University, and a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Toronto. His recent work has focused on issues related to productivity measurement and predicting the price effects of mergers. He is current an Associate Editor and the Economic Journal, and has published papers in the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the RAND Journal of Economics , the Journal of International Economics, the Canadian Journal of Economics.
Selected Publications
- Ershov, D., JW Laliberte, M. Marcoux and S. Orr (2025), "Estimating Complementarity with Large Choice Sets: An Application to Mergers" RAND Journal of Economics, 56(4), 689-707.
- Freylejer, L., and S. Orr (2023), "Import Substitution in Illicit Methamphetamine Markets" Journal of International Economics 140: 103690.
- S. Orr (2022), "Within-Firm Productivity Dispersion: Estimates and Implications" Journal of Political Economy 130(11): 2771-2828.