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Thomas Marschak

Thomas Marschak


Professor, Cora Jane Flood Research Chair
Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group
Haas Operations and Information Technology Management Group
1-510-642-4726
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By appointment, F641
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Education

Ph.B., University of Chicago
Graduate Study, University of Chicago
AM, economics, Stanford University
Ph.D., economics, Stanford University


Positions Held

At Haas since 1960
1967 - present Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1968 - 70 Chairman, Center for Research in Management Science Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1962 - 67 Associate professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1960 - 62 Assistant professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1954 - 59 Economist, RAND Corporation


External Service and Assignments

  • Associate Editor: Review of Economic Design


Current Research and Interests

  • Informational and incentive aspects of the design of efficient organizations
  • The effect of information technology on the organization of firms


Selected Papers and Publications

  • “Information Technology and the Organization of Firms,” Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 13, 473-515 (2004).
  • "Shirking and Squandering in Sharing Games" (with D. Courtney), Topics in Theoretical Economics (Berkeley Electronic Press), Vol 6 (1) (2006).
  • “Complementarity and Inefficiency in Sharing Games” (with D. Courtney),  Review of Economic Design, (forthcoming).
  • "Organization Structure," in Handbook of Economics and Information Systems
    (T. Hendershott, ed.), Elsevier (2006), 205-290.
  • "Comparing Finite Mechanisms" (with Leonid Hurwicz), Economic Theory 21, 783-841 (2003)
  • "Finite Allocation Mechanisms: Approximate Walrasian versus Approximate Direct Revelation" (with Leonid Hurwicz), Economic Theory 21, 545-572 (2003)
  • "Network Mechanisms, Informational Efficiency, and Hierarchies." (with S. Reichelstein). Journal of Economic Theory. (March 1998): 106-141.
  • "Independence versus Dominance in Personal Probability Axioms," in W. Heller, R. Starr, and D. Starrett, eds., Uncertainty, Information and Social Choice: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Arrow, Cambridge University, Vol. 3, pp. 129-171, 1986
  • "Restabilizing Responses, Inertia Supergames, and Oligopolistic Equilibria." (with Reinhard Selten) Quarterly Journal of Economics. (February 1978): 210-236
  • "General Equilibrium with Price-Making Firms (with Reinhard Selten), Springer, 1974,
    340 pp.


Teaching

  • UGBA 101A, Microeconomics for Business Decisions
  • BA 243, Decisions, Games and Strategies


Honors and Awards

  • Fellow, Social Science Research Council, 1956-57
  • Awarded McKinsey Foundation Prize for Best Article in Journal of Business, 1960
  • Ford Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship, 1962-63
  • Guggenheim Fellow, 1965-66
  • Fulbright-Hays Research Award, 1965-66
  • Elected, Fellow Econometric Society, 1975
  • Co-winner of Koc University prize, for best article in Economic Design, 1996



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