Bruce Lyons

Professor of Economics, University of East Anglia

Bruce Lyons is Professor of Economics and Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy (CCP). He is a member of the Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy (EAGCP) to the European Commission, the Economics Reference Group (ERG) of the NHS regulator Monitor, and the Scientific Board of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO). He was formerly Editor of Journal of Industrial Economics, Associate Editor of Economica, and a part-time Member of the UK Competition Commission (2002-11).

His current research is focused on the economics of market structure (including banking) and the economic analysis of competition policy, including the design of institutions and remedies (including the implications of behavioural economics). Since 2001, he has given invited research papers in sixteen countries, and held visiting research positions at the European University Institute and University of Melbourne.