Professor, Business Strategy
Economic Analysis and Policy Group at Walter A. Haas School of Business
Professor, Economics
Department of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley
Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research
University of California at Berkeley
Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
EDUCATION
Ph.D. –Economics, MIT, 1981
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCES
Senior Consultant, Charles River Associates
Founder, the Tilden Group
AWARDS
Runner-Up, Teaching Prize, MBA Program, Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley, 1999-2000.
National Science Foundation Research Grant #SES-9209509, "Technology Transitions with Network Externalities," 1992-1994, (with Joseph Farrell).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Industrial organization, competition policy, the economics of innovation, competitive strategy, antitrust economics, intellectual property and licensing, product standards and compatibility, and the economics of networks and interconnection.
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KEY PUBLICATIONS -
Katz M.L., & Shapiro C. (1985). Network externalities, competition, and compatibility. American Economic Review 75(3): 424-440.
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Shapiro C., Stiglitz J. E. (1984). Equilibrium unemployment as a worker discipline device. American Economic Review 74(3): 433-444.
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Shapiro, C. (1983). Premiums for high-quality products as returns to reputations. Quarterly Journal Of Economics 98(4): 659-679.
| | Hal R. Varian EDUCATION
Ph.D. – Economics, UC Berkeley, 1973
MA – Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 1973
SB – MIT, 1969
AWARDS -
California Council on Science and Technology Fellow, 2001
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Accenture’s list of top 50 business intellectuals
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Honorary Ph.D., Univesity of Oulu, Finland, 2002
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Economic theory, industrial organization, financial economics, econometrics and information economics
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KEY PUBLICATIONS -
Varian, H. R. (1994). A solution to the problem of externalities when agents are well-informed. American Economic Review 84(5): 1278-1293.
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Resnick, P., & Varian, H. R. (1997). Recommender systems. Communications of the ACM 40(3): 56-58.
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Varian, H. R. (1982). The nonparametric approach to demand analysis. Econometrica 50(4): 945-973
| | Andrew B. Whinston
Professor, Computer Science; Economics
Director, Center for Research in Electronic Commerce
Fellow IC2
Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair Professor
MSIS, Computer Science, Economics Departments
University of Texas (Austin, Texas)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. – Management, Carnegie Mellon University, 1962
AWARDS
Ford Foundation Faculty Research Scholarship
Distinguished Information Systems Educator, 1994
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Bringing technological, business, economic, public policy, sociological, cryptographic and political concerns together in laying the theoretical and practical foundations of a digital economy
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KEY PUBLICATIONS -
Whinston, A. B., & Stahl, D. O. (1997). The economics of electronic commerce. New York: Macmillan Technical Publishing
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Hamalainen, M., Whinston, A. B., & Vishik, S. (1996). Electronic markets for learning: Education brokerages on the Internet. Communications of The ACM 39(6): 51-58.
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Fan M., Stallaert J., & Whinston, A. B. (2000). The adoption and design methodologies of component-based enterprise systems. European Journal Of Information Systems 9(1): 25-35
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