[3] Baye has held appointments at Cambridge, Oxford, Erasmus, Tilburg, and the New Economic School in Moscow.
As of July 2007, Baye has accepted a position to lead the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics.
[4] Baye's research primarily focuses on pricing strategies and their impact on consumer welfare and firm profits.
This research contributed to the policy debate of the 1980s by documenting the “cost” of various proposals to delay or repeal the indexation of the US federal income tax code.
Much of this research concerns pricing strategies in oligopoly environments where consumers view the products sold by different firms to be close substitutes.