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Oliver Williamson

Oliver Williamson

 

Professor Emeritus of business, economics, and law
Professor of the Graduate School
Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business Administration
1-510-642-8697
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: F434, Th 2:00 - 3:00 and by appointment
Personal Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/bpp/oew/
Academic Group Homepage:
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Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

 

Education

SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MBA, Stanford University
Ph.D., economics, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Positions Held

At Haas since 1988
2004-present  Professor of the Graduate School and Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics and Law
1998-2004 Edgar F. Kaiser Professor of Business, Economics and Law, Haas School of Business
1983 - 88 Gordon B. Tweedy Professor of Economics of Law and Organization, Yale University
1977 - 83 Charles and William L. Day Professor of Economics and Social Science, University of Pennsylvania:
1976 - 83 Director, Center for the Study of Organizational Innovation, University of Pennsylvania
1976 - 77 Chairperson, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
1971 - 72 Chairperson, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
1968 - 83 Professor, University of Pennsylvania
1965 - 68 Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
1963 - 65 Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley

 

External Service and Assignments

  • Member: National Academy of Sciences
  • Co-editor, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , 1985-2003
  • Former President, International Society of New Institutional Economics, Western Economic Association
  • Former president and member, American Law and Economics Association
  • Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Econometrics Society
  • Former editor, Bell Journal of Economics
  • Former Special Economic Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, US Department of Justice

 

Current Research and Interests

  • Economic theories of firms, markets, hybrids, and public agencies
  • Applications to public policy and to business strategy

 

Selected Papers and Publications

  • "The Economics of Governance," American Economic Review, 2005
  • "The Theory of the Firm as Governance Structure," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002
  • The Mechanisms of Governance. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 1996; translated into Italian by Margherita Turvani, and reprinted by Franco Angeli
  • The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting. New York: The Free Press, 1985. (Translated into Spanish by Eduardo L. Suarez and reprinted by Cultura Economica, 1989; translated into Italian by Margherita Turvani, 1987; translated into German and reprinted by J.C.B. Mohr, 1990; translated into Russian by Valery Katkalo et al. And published by Lenizdat, 1995; translated into French by Regis Coeurderoy and Emmanuelle Mainant and published by InterEditions, 1994; translated into Polish and published by Polish Scientific Publishers, 1998.)
  • Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications. New York: The Free Press, 1975. (Translated into Japanese and reprinted by Nippon Hyoronsha Publishing Company, 1980. Chapter 2 has been translated into Italian and reprinted in Organizzazione and Mercato (Raoul C.D. Nacamulli and Andrea Rugiadini, ed.), Bologna, 1985, pp. 161-186. Translated into Spanish (by Evangelina Nino de la Silva) and reprinted by Cultura Economica)
  • Corporate Control and Business Behavior: An Inquiry into the Effects of Organization Form on Enterprise Behavior. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1970. (Translated into Japanese and reprinted by Maruzen Co., Ltd., 1974.)
  • The Economics of Discretionary Behavior: Managerial Objectives in a Theory of the Firm. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall Press, 1964. (Reprinted by Markham Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1967; reprinted by Eurospan Ltd., 1974; translated into Japanese and reprinted by Chikura, 1981; Chapter 4 is reprinted in Readings of Industrial Economics: Theoretical Foundations (C.K. Rowley, ed.) London, 1971.)

 

Honors and Awards

  • Doctoris Honoris Causa in Economics, Nice University, 2005
  • Horst Claus Recktenwald Prize in Economics, 2004
  • Doctoris Honoris Causa in Economics, Valencia University, 2004
  • Honorary Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2002
  • Eminent Scholar of the Fellows of the Academy of International Business, 2002
  • Doctoris Honoris Causa in Economics, University of Chile, 2000
  • Honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration, Copenhagen Business School, 2000
  • John von Neumann Prize, 1999
  • Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Siena, Spring 1999
  • Doctoris Honoris Causa, Groupe HEC (Paris), 1997
  • Doctoris Honoris Causa in Business Administration, St. Petersburg University, Russia, 1997
  • Doctoris Honoris Causa in Economics, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, 1995
  • Elected to U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1994
  • Doctoris Honoris Causa in Economic Science, Groningen University, 1989
  • Doctoris Honoris Causa in Economic Science, Hochschule St. Gallen, 1987
  • Distinguished Senior US Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, 1987
  • Oeconomiae Doctorem Honoris Causa, Ph.D., Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Jubilee Celebration, 1986
  • Irwin Award for Scholarly Contributions to Management, Academy of Management, 1988
  • 1983 Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in Law and Economics, Miami University
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1977-78
  • Guggenheim Fellow, 1977-78



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