Mark McCabe is a visiting assistant professor at the School of Information and a lecturer at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
After receiving his Ph.D. in applied economics from MIT's Sloan School of Management, McCabe joined the Economic Analysis Group in the U.S. Justice Department's Antitrust Division in Washington, D.C. While at the Department of Justice, his responsibilities included the analysis of anti-competitive practices, mergers, and federal economic regulation. During this time, he also served as an adjunct professor at American University.
From 1998 to 2007, McCabe was an assistant professor in the School of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His other affiliations include the Sloan Industry Studies Program and the State Center's Panel of Economists, and in the past the National Research Council.
McCabe's research in the field of industrial organization currently focuses on the economics of digital information goods markets (with a particular interest in scientific publishing) and the implications of the online environment for competition policy. This research has been published in various scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, the Rand Journal of Economics, and Nature and has been supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the NET Institute, and the Open Society Institute. On occasion it has also been cited in publications such as Le Monde, Nature, the New York Times, Science, and the Wall Street Journal.
In the News: Recent STIET PhD Eytan Bakshy's paper "The Role of Social Networks in Information Diffusion" is getting a lot of attention -- see Tech Crunch and Slate. 
News Note: WSU STIET faculty member, Robert Reynolds, STIET fellow Leonard Kinniard-Heether, and REU student Tracy Liu won first place in the IEEE Super Mario Competition and best student paper prize at the 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence in Barcelona, Spain.