Professor | Oliver E. and Dolores W. Williamson Chair of the Economics of Organizations | Founding Director, Xlab | Distinguished Teaching Fellow
About
John Morgan (1967-2021) was the Oliver E. and Dolores W. Williamson Chair of the Economics of Organizations at Berkeley Haas and was a member of the Economic Analysis & Policy Group and the Business & Public Policy Group. He served as a Co-director of the Fisher Information Technology Center and a Founding Director of Xlab, the Experimental Social Sciences Laboratory. Before coming to Berkeley, he was a professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He earned his PhD and MS from the Pennsylvania State University, as well as earning a BS (summa cum laude) at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Read More
Morgan was an editor for the Berkeley Electronic Journals for Theoretical Economics. He was also an associate editor at Management Science and Economic Theory and a member of the editorial board for the California Management Review. He consulted in the area of auctions and dynamic pricing for Google, Digonex, and Paging Systems. He received awards from the National Science Foundation, and he was selected as a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution and the International Monetary Fund. His research on online pricing earned him a best paper award for 2004 in Journal of Industrial Economics. His article “Price Dispersion in the Large and in the Small: Evidence from an Internet Price Comparison Site” won the Journal of Industrial Economics “best article” prize in 2005. His class on game theory was one of the most popular courses at Berkeley Haas.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Experimental Economics
- Elections and Polling
- Competition in Online Markets
- Communication in Organizations
- John Morgan, Dana Sisak and Felix Vardy. The Ponds Dilemma (opens in a new tab). The Economic Journal.
2017 - John Morgan and Dana Sisak. Aspiring to Succeed: a Model of Entrepreneurship and Fear of Failure (opens in a new tab). Journal of Business Venturing.
2016 - Vijay Krishna and John Morgan. Majority Rule and Utilitarian Welfare (opens in a new tab). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
2015 - John Morgan, Henrik Orzen, Martin Sefton, and Dana Sisak. Strategic and Natural Risk in Entrepreneurship: An Experimental Study. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.
2015 - John Morgan, Yonghong An, Michael R. Baye, Yingyao Hu, and Matt Shum. Identification and Estimation of Online Price Competition With an Unknown Number of Firms (opens in a new tab). Journal of Applied Econometrics.
2015 - John Morgan and Mitchell Hoffman. Who’s Naughty? Who’s Nice? Social Preferences in Online Industries. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
2015 - John Morgan and Jennifer Brown. How much is a Dollar Worth? Tipping versus Equilibrium Coexistence on Competing Online Auction Sites. Journal of Political Economy.
2009 - John Morgan and Michael Baye. Brand and Price Advertising in Online Markets. Management Science.
2009 - John Morgan and Felix Vardy. Diversity in the Workplace. American Economic Review.
2009 - John Morgan and Alan S. Blinder. Leadership in Groups: A Monetary Policy Experiment. International Journal of Central Banking.
2008 - John Morgan and Vijay Krishna. Contracting for Information under Imperfect Commitment. RAND Journal of Economics.
2008
At Haas since 2002
2006 – present, Oliver E. and Dolores W. Williamson Chair of the Economics of Organizations
2002 – 2006, Professor, Haas School of Business
1999, Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics Department, New York University
1998, Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Pennsylvania
1996 – 2002, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
1989 – 1992, Senior Accountant, Bankruptcy and Forensic Accounting Group, Grant Thornton
- Co-editor, B.E. Journals in Theoretical Economics
- Co-editor, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations
- Principal, Nash-equilibrium.com
- Associate Editor, Economic Journal
- Editorial Board, California Management Review
- Certified Public Accountant (inactive)
Judge Business School Fellow at Cambridge
2008
Visiting Fellow Commoner Award, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
2007
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching
2006
W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship
2001-2002
National Science Foundation Research Grant
2004 – 2007, 2001 – 2004, 1997 – 1999
Sloan Fellowship
2000 – 2002
Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant
1997 – 1999
Cyril E. Black Preceptorship
1996 – 1998
Pennsylvania State University Graduate Fellowship
1993 – 1995
- Why Am I Paying $60 for That Bag of Rice on Amazon.com? (opens in a new tab), The Markup, 04/28/2020
- Psychology of wealth: do the new rich not care about losing money? (opens in a new tab), Financial Times, 05/04/2019
- Professor profiles: John Morgan, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (opens in a new tab), MBA Mission, 06/20/2018
- Professor Profiles: John Morgan, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (opens in a new tab), mbaMission, 01/18/2017
- How to restore power to the people (opens in a new tab), San Francisco Chronicle, 11/29/2016
- New research suggests banning investment advice in the media (opens in a new tab), Investment News, 08/16/2016
- Courses, Game Theory
Contract Theory
John Morgan