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Ernesto Dal Bó
Assistant Professor

Ph.D. from University of Oxford in economics

Research: political economy, democratic institutions and collective decision-making, influence and corruption, coercion, conflict.

Publication Highlights: "Capture by Threat," with Rafael Di Tella, October 2003 Journal of Political Economy

"Plata o Plomo?: Bribe and Punishment in a Theory of Political Influence," with Pedro Dal Bó and Rafael Di Tella, February 2006 American Political Science Review

Rui de Figueiredo, Jr.
Associate Professor

Ph.D. from Stanford University in political science

Research: American political institutions, bureaucratic organization, formal theory, political methodology, political violence, political behavior

Publication Highlights: “Does Private Money Buy Public Policy? Campaign Contributions and Regulatory Outcomes in Telecommunications,” with Geoff Edwards, forthcoming Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

“The Political Economy of State-Level Administrative Procedure Acts," with Richard G. Vanden Bergh, 2004 Journal of Law and Economics 47

Paul J. Gertler
Professor

Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin, Madison in economics

Research: finance and management of health care systems

Publication Highlights: "Insuring Consumption Against Illness," with Jonathan Gruber, March 2002 American Economic Review

"Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bangal," with Abihjit Bannerjee and Maitreesh Ghatak, April 2002 Journal of Political Economy

John Morgan
Gary and Sherron Kalbach Chair

Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in economics

Research: internet economics, design of organizations, psychology and economics, experimental economics

Publication Highlights: "...Plus Shipping and Handling: Revenue (Non)Equivalence in Field Experiments on eBay," with Tanjim Hossain, 2006, Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy

“An Experimental Study of Price Dispersion,” with H. Orzen and M. Sefton, 2006 Games and Economic Behavior

David C. Mowery
Professor

Ph.D. from Stanford University in economics

Research: impact of technological change on economic growth and employment, management of technological change, international trade policy and US technology policy

Publication Highlights: Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: U.S. University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act, with R.R. Nelson, B.N. Sampat, and A.A. Ziedonis, Stanford University Press, 2004

Oxford Handbook of Innovation and Policy (co-editor with J. Fagerberg and R. Nelson), Oxford University Press, 2004

Pablo T. Spiller
Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professorship in Business and Technology

Ph.D. from University of Chicago in economics

Research: industrial organization; political economy; economics of regulation and antitrust; regulatory issues in developing cultures; the role of institutions in society, how regulations arise in the telecommunications, energy, and airline industries; the role of hub and spoke networks

Publication Highlights: The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy in Argentina, with Mariano Tommasi, Cambridge University Press, 2007

“Strategic Judicial Decision Making,” with Rafael Gely, forthcoming (Editors: K. Whittington, E. D. Kelemen and G. Caldeira) Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics, Oxford University Press, 2007

Steven Tadelis
Associate Professor

Ph.D. from Harvard University in economics

Research: economics of organization, procurement contracting, theory of the firm and industrial organization, contract theory, game theory

Publication Highlight: "Profit Sharing and the Role of Professional Partnerships," with Jonathan Levin, 2005, Quarterly Journal of Economics

"Incentives and Award Procedures: Competitive Tendering vs. Negotiations in Procurement," with Patrick Bajari, 2006, in Handbook of E-Procurement, Cambridge University Press

David J. Teece
Professor

Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania in economics

Research: theory of the firm; understanding enterprise performance in regimes of rapid (technological) change; the law and economics of intellectual property.

Publication Highlights: Technological Know-how, Organizational Capabilities, and Strategic Management (World Scientific, forthcoming 2006)

The Transfer and Licensing of Know-how and Intellectual Property (World Scientific, forthcoming 2006)

“Reflections on ‘Profiting from Innovation’,” 2006 Research Policy

Laura D’Andrea Tyson
Professor

Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in economics

Research: U.S economic competitiveness and U.S. trade policy; globalization and labor market conditions in developed economies; economic and business conditions in emerging market economies; corporate governance issues

Publication Highlights: Who’s Bashing Whom: Trade Conflicts in High-Technology Industries, Institute for International Economics, 1992

“Migrating Workers and Jobs: A Challenge to the European Social Model?” with S. Commander and A. Heitmueller, (Editors: A. Giddens, R. Liddle and P. Diamond) Global Europe, Social Europe: the Future of European Social Model, Polity Press, 2006

David Vogel
Professor

Ph.D. from Princeton University in politics

Research: consumer and environmental regulation in Europe and the United States, 1970-2005; corporate social responsibility in the global economy; environment and trade; food safety regulation in Europe

Publication Highlights: The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsiblity (Brookings 2005)

What’s The Beef? The Contested Goverance of European Food Safety (co-editor: Chris Ansell) MIT Press, 2006

"The Low Value of Virtue. (Forethought)," June 2005 Harvard Business Review

Oliver E. Williamson
Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics, and Law

Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in economics

Research: economic theories of firms, markets, hybrids, and public agencies; applications to public policy and to business strategy

Publication Highlights: "Corporate Governance and Economic Organization: A Contractual and Organizational Perspective," to be delivered as the 2006 Thomas Malthus Lecture

"The Economics of Governance," May 2005 American Economic Review

"Transaction cost economics and business administration," March 2005 Scandinavian Journal of Management

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