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Rui de Figueiredo

Associate Professor
Haas Business and Public Policy Group
and Department of Political Science
1-510-642-6452
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By Appointment Only, F588
Personal Homepage:
Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/bpp/
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BA, History, Harvard University
MA, Economics, Stanford University
MA, Political Science, Stanford University
Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University

Positions Held

At Haas since 1997
2003-present Associate Professor, Haas School of Business
1997-2003 Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business

External Service and Assignments

Visiting Scholar: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Qualified Case Leader, The Boston Consulting Group, Melbourne, Australia
Member, Sage Prize Committee, American Political Science Association (1999)
Member, Best Dissertation Prize in Political Economy Committee, American Political Science Association (2000)
Reviewer for American Journal of Political Science; American Political Science Review; Business and Politics; California Management Review; Journal of Economics and Management Strategy; Journal of Law and Economics; Journal of Law, Economics and Organization; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of Theoretical Politics

Current Research and Interests

Game theory
Methodology and Econometrics
Non-market strategy
Institutions and organizations
Bureaucratic organization
American Politics

Selected Papers and Publications

"Does Private Money Buy Public Policy?," (with Geoff Edwards) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 16:3 (2007), pp. 547-576.
"Hedge Funds and the Active Management Industry," (with Neil Brown, Vineet Budhraja, and Ryan Meredith), Journal of Alternative Investments, forthcoming.
"Rationality, Inaccurate Mental Models and Self-Confirming Equilibrium," (with Jack Rakove and Barry R. Weingast), Journal of Theoretical Politics 18:4 (2006), pp. 384-415.
"The Allocation of Resources by Interest Groups: Lobbying, Litigation, and Administrative Regulation," (with John M. de Figueiredo), Business and Politics 4:2 (2002), pp. 161-181.
"Managerial Decision-making in Non-Market Strategy: An Experiment," (with John M. de Figueiredo), Advances in Strategic Management, 2002.
"Electoral Competition, Political Uncertainty, and Policy Insulation," American Political Science Review 96:2 (2002), pp. 321-333.
"Strategy, Structure and Regulation: Telecommunications in the New Economy," (with Pablo T. Spiller), Michigan State Law Review, 2000, pp. 253-285.
"An Informational Perspective on Administrative Procedures," (with Pablo T. Spiller and Santiago Urbiztondo), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, April 1999, pp. 283-205.

Teaching

MBA 299B: Strategy, Spring 2007
MBA 277-2: Deals, Spring 2007
PHDBA 270: Institutional Analysis Workshop, Spring 2007

Honors and Awards

Schwabacher Junior Faculty Award
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (PhD Program), 1999

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