Benjamin Rosa is an Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Ph.D. in economics in 2018 and joined Ross' faculty after working at Virginia Tech and the University of Kentucky.


In his research, Professor Rosa studies the consequences of preferential treatment policies in government procurement, including price-evaluation preferences for residential contractors and subcontracting requirements for firms designated as disadvantaged. His work has been published or accepted for publication in various internationally recognized and peer-reviewed journals, and he has presented his findings in places such as the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and various Federal Reserve Banks in the United States.