Education
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MA, mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., economics, University of California, Berkeley
Positions Held
At Haas since 1995
2007 Chief Economist, Google
1995 - present Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley,
1995 - present Class of 1944 Professor, UC Berkeley
1995 - present Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
1995 - 03 Dean, School of Information Management and Systems,
UC Berkeley
1984 - 96 Reuben Kempf Professor of Economics, University
of Michigan
1983 - 96 Professor of Finance, University of Michigan
1977 - 84 Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
1973 - 77 Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Visiting Positions: UC Berkeley; Stanford University; University
of Stockholm; Helsinki School of Business; Nuffield College,
Oxford; Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University, Melbourne,
Australia; Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken,
Germany; University of Arizona
External Service and Assignments
- Presenter: World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 1997
- Co-editor, American Economic Review
- Time Magazine, Board of Economists, 1999
Current Research and Interests
- Economics of information technology
- Information technology strategy
Selected Papers and Publications
- "Economic Mechanism Design for Computerized Agents." Proceedings of Usenix Conference on Electronic Commerce. (New York). (July 11-12, 1995).
- "The Information Economy." Scientific American. (September, 1995): 200-202.
- "Versioning: the Smart Way to Sell Information." Harvard Business Review. (November-December, 1998).
- "Standards Wars." California Management Review. (1999).
- Microeconomic Analysis. W. W. Norton and Company, 1978. Abstract
- Intermediate Microeconomics. W. W. Norton and Company, 1987.
- Workouts for Intermediate Microeconomics, (with Theodore Bergstrom). W. W. Norton and Company, 1987. Abstract
- (Editor). Economic and Financial Modeling with Mathematica. TELOS/Springer-Verlag, 1992.
- (Editor). Computational Economics: Economic and Financial Analysis with Mathematica. TELOS/Springer-Verlag, 1996.
- Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy, (with Carl Shapiro). Harvard Business School Press, 1998.
Teaching
- BA C290-D, Strategic Computing and Communications Technology, Spring 2007
Honors and Awards
- National Science Foundation Fellow, 1970-1973
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1979-1980
- Econometrics Society Fellow, 1983
- Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1984
- Siena Chair in Economics (Fulbright Distinguished Lecturing Award), Siena, Italy, 1990
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, 1995
- Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1995 (Postponed.)
- John von Neumann Award, Hungarian School of Economics, 1996
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