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Timothy F. Bresnahan

Landau Professor in Technology and the Economy

Tim Bresnahan

Contact Info:

tbres@stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~tbres/
Page in Stanford Directory

Phone: 650-723-9471

Office: Landau 325

Office hours: on leave

Curriculum Vitae

Interests

  • Research: Industrial organization, applied econometrics, the economics of technology
  • Current Research: Competition in high technology industries; technical change by users of information technologies
  • Teaching: Econometrics, industrial organization, microeconomics
  • Professional Affiliations: AEA, Econometric Society (Fellow), National Bureau of Economic Research

Recent Publications

(1) “The Economics of New Goods” (edited with Robert J. Gordon) proceedings of a meeting of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, University of Chicago Press

(2) “The Competitive Crash in Large-Scale Commercial Computing” (with Shane Greenstein) Growth & Development. The Economics of the 21st Century, (edited by Ralph Landau, Nathan Rosenberg, and Timothy Taylor), Stanford University Press, forthcoming

(3) “Technical Progress in Computing and in the Uses of Computers” (with Shane Greenstein) Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Micro

List of Stanford Working Papers

Current Courses

Spring

ECON 260 Industrial Organization III

Education

Ph.D. Princeton University; B.A. Haverford College