Michael Kotrous

Michael is a Ph.D. candidate in the John Munro Godfrey, Sr. Department of Economics at the University of Georgia. He is an empirical IO economist with interest in labor economics, franchising, and broadband. He is also an assistant with the James C. Bonbright Center for the Study of Regulation at the University of Georgia and was a Bastiat Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

• BA, Economics and Journalism–Advertising, Creighton University, 2015
• MA, Economics, University of Georgia, 2023
• PhD, Economics, University of Georgia, Expected May 2027

• Empirical Industrial Organization
• Labor Economics
• Franchising
• Broadband

• Swift Undergraduate Teaching Fellow, John Munro Godfrey, Sr. Department of Economics at University of Georgia, 2025
• Outstanding TA Award, Center for Teaching & Learning at University of Georgia, 2025
• Assistant, Bonbright Center for the Study of Regulation at University of Georgia, 2021 - present
• Bastiat Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2021-2022
• Winner, Carl Menger Essay Contest, Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, 2015
• Omicron Delta Epsilon, Creighton University, 2015
• Werner-Robertson Fellow, Institute for Economic Inquiry at Creighton University, 2014-2015