The University of Chicago's Market Shaping Accelerator

Designing market shaping mechanisms to spur innovation to help solve some of the biggest global challenges.

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Accelerating Innovation

Threats to the global community -- such as climate change and pandemics -- demand urgent innovation and action at scale. But when commercial incentives for innovation trail behind the social value, market shaping instruments can credibly signal demand and spur and scale up innovation.

The Market Shaping Accelerator aims to harness the momentum and interest in these tools generated from global successes in vaccine development to accelerate their adoption by governments, multilateral institutions, and philanthropies to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.

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Our Team

Nobel Laureates, leading scholars and innovators advance the use of market shaping instruments to address global challenges​. The Market Shaping Accelerator brings together the world’s leading market shaping experts. The team behind the Accelerator has contributed to both foundational research and prominent policy successes of market shaping mechanisms, including the Pneumococcal and Frontier Advance Market Commitments (AMCs).

Directors

Rachel Glennerster

Founding Faculty Director, Market Shaping Accelerator; President, Center for Global Development

Michael Kremer

Co-Faculty Director, Market Shaping Accelerator; University Professor in Economics, University of Chicago; 2019 Nobel Prize Recipient ​

Leah Rosenzweig

Director, Market Shaping Accelerator

Christopher Snyder

Co-Faculty Director, Market Shaping Accelerator; Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor in Economics, Dartmouth College

Staff

William Arnesen

Policy Manager, Market Shaping Accelerator

Sarrin Chethik

Senior Policy Analyst, Market Shaping Accelerator

Siddhartha Haria

Senior Policy Lead, Market Shaping Accelerator

Claire McMahon

Policy Analyst, Market Shaping Accelerator

Emmanuel Murray Leclair

Postdoctoral Scholar, Market Shaping Accelerator

Sebastian Quaade

Policy Analyst, Market Shaping Accelerator

Rebecca Rolapp

Administration and Operations Associate, Market Shaping Accelerator

Advisors

Susan Athey

Stanford University

Christopher Norio Avery

Harvard University

Cath Bremner

Impax Asset Management

Michael Greenstone

University of Chicago

Tom Kalil

Renaissance Philanthropy

Matthew Kotchen

Yale University

Steve Levitt

University of Chicago

David McAdams

Duke University

Nan Ransohoff

Frontier

Jean Tirole

Toulouse School of Economics; 2014 Nobel Prize Recipient

Heidi Williams

Dartmouth College

Catherine Wolfram

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

INNOVATION CHALLENGE

An open call for ideas to surface high-impact market shaping proposals to address climate change and pandemic preparedness.
In its first year the Accelerator will surface challenges well suited to be addressed with market shaping instruments, support the development of viable proposals, attract external funding to move selected proposals into action and finally follow these mechanisms through to completion.
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Blog·Oct 23, 2024

Five Steps Multilateral Development Banks Can Take Now to Enable At-risk Financing for Pandemics

Accelerator News·Oct 22, 2024

We’re hiring! MSA is looking for research professionals to join the team!

We are pleased to announce we are recruiting research professionals (advert here) for the UChicago Market Shaping Accelerator. These roles are both exciting and challenging. The roles cover a range of activities: applying your economic intuition to new problems, doing...

Join the Accelerator

We’re hiring full time staff for our climate-resilient crops project as well as research professionals. We are also interested in people with domain expertise in climate change and pandemic preparedness as well as the economics of innovation, industrial organization and costing/pricing. If you are interested in offering your expertise, please reach out to marketshaping@uchicago.edu.
Research Professionals

Research Professional, Market Shaping Accelerator

The Market Shaping Accelerator at the University of Chicago is led by the world’s leading market shaping scholars including Nobel laureate Michael Kremer (UChicago), Professor and former Chief Economist of the FCDO Rachel Glennerster (UChicago and CGD), and Professor Christopher...
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Staff

Technical Lead, Climate-Resilient Crops AMC

The Market Shaping Accelerator at the University of Chicago is led by some of the world’s leading market shaping scholars including Nobel laureate Michael Kremer (UChicago), Professor and President of the Center for Global Development Rachel Glennerster (CGD), and Professor...
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Staff

Head of Climate-Resilient Crops AMC

The Market Shaping Accelerator at the University of Chicago is led by some of the world’s leading market shaping scholars including Nobel laureate Michael Kremer (UChicago), Professor and President of the Center for Global Development Rachel Glennerster (CGD), and Professor...
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