TIMOTHY F. BRESNAHAN



Department of Economics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6072
(415) 723-9471
Fax: (415) 723-5702
E-Mail: tbres@leland.Stanford.edu

PERSONAL

Born January 4, 1953
U.S. Citizen
Married

EDUCATION

EMPLOYMENT

PUBLICATIONS

  1. (With Alfonso Gambardella) "The Division of Inventive Labor and the Extent of the Market" forthcoming in General Purpose Technologies and Economic Growth. Elhanan Helpman and Paul Romer (eds.)

  2. (With Scott Stern and Manuel Trajtenberg) "Market Segmentation, Transitory Market Power, and Rents from Innovation: Personal Computers in the late 1980's" forthcoming, RAND Journal of Economics.

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

  4. "Testing and Measurement in Competition Modelsl" in Advances in Economies and Econometrics, Econometric Society Seventh Work Congress, David Kreps and Ken Wallis, editors.

  5. (With Robert E. Porter) " Papers in honor of Richard E. Quandt; An Introduction", RAND Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

  6. "Testing and Measurement in Competition Models", La Lettre de l'AFSE, Conférence aux Journées AFSE, Juillet 1996, n 31.

  7. (with Robert J. Gordon) "The Economics of New Goods: An Introduction" in Bresnahan and Gordon, eds., The Economics of New Goods.

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

  9. (with Amy Bertin and Daniel Raff) "Aggregation, Localized Competition, and Plant-Level Increasing Returns: Blast Furnace Operations 1929-1935," Journal of Political Economy, April 1996, v. 104 n. z, pp. 241-66

  10. (with Garth Saloner) "Large Firms' Demand for Computer Products and Services: Competing Market Models, Inertia, and Enabling Strategic Change," forthcoming in Colliding Worlds: The Merging of Computers, Telecommunications, and Consumer Electronics, David B. Yoffie (ed.), Harvard University Press, 1996.

  11. (with Peter C. Reiss) "Measuring the Importance of Sunk Costs," Annales D'Économie et de Statistique, No. 31, pp. 183-217, 1994.

  12. (with Shane Greenstein) "The Competitive Crash in Large-Scale Commercial Computing," in Growth & Development; the Economics of the 21st Century, edited by Ralph Landau, Nathan Rosenberg, and Timothy Taylor, Stanford University Press, 1995.

  13. (with Valerie Ramey) "Segment Shifts and Capacity Utilization in the U.S. Automobile Industry," AER Papers & Proceedings, vol. 83(2), May 1993.

  14. (with Jonathan Baker) "Empirical Methods of Identifying and Measuring Market Power," Antitrust Law Journal, Summer 1992.

  15. (with Manuel Trajtenberg) "General Purpose Technologies: 'Engines of Growth'?," Journal of Econometrics, Special Issue, January 1995, v 65, n 1, pp. 83-108.

  16. (with Daniel Raff) "Intra-Industry Heterogeneity and the Great Depression: The American Motor Vehicle Industry, 1929-1935," Journal of Economic History, June, 1991.

  17. Output Measurement in the Service Sectors edited with Zvi Griliches, Ernst Berndt and Marilyn Manser, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 1992.

  18. (with Valerie Ramey) "Output Fluctuations at the Plant Level," Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1994, v 109, n 3 , pp. 593-624.

  19. (with Paul Milgrom and Jonathan Paul) "The Real Output of the Stock Exchange," in Output Measurement in the Service Sectors edited with Zvi Griliches, Ernst Berndt and Marilyn Manser, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 1992.

  20. (with Peter Reiss) "Entry and Competition in Concentrated Markets," Journal of Political Economy, vol. 95 (5), (October), pp. 977-1009, 1991.

  21. (with Peter Reiss) "Econometric Models of Discrete Games," Journal of Econometrics, 48 (1991) 57-81.

  22. (with Peter Reiss) "Entry into Monopoly Markets," Review of Economic Studies, vol. 57 (no. 4, October), pp. 531-553, 1990.

  23. (with Amit Chopra) "The Development of the Local Area Network Market as Determined by User Needs," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, vol. 1 (nos. 1-2), pp. 97-110, 1990.

  24. (with W. Bruce Chew, Kim B. Clark) "Measurement, Coordination, and Learning in a Multiplant Network," in Measures for Manufacturing Excellence, Robert Kaplan, ed., (Boston: Harvard Business School Press), 1990.

  25. (with Valerie Suslow) "Short-Run Supply with Capacity Constraints," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago, vol. XXXII (October), pp. S11-S42, 1989.

  26. (with Valerie Suslow) "Short-Run Pricing with Capacity Constraints," Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, vol. 15/16 (Juillet-Décembre), pp. 267-290, 1989.

  27. "Empirical Methods for Industries with Market Power," chapter 17 in Handbook of Industrial Organization, Volume II, Richard Schmalensee and Robert Willig, eds., (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.), 1989.

  28. (with Jonathan Baker) "Estimating the Residual Demand Curve Facing a Single Firm," International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 6, pp. 283-300, 1988.

  29. (with Peter Reiss) "Do Entry Conditions Vary across Markets?" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Special Issue on Microeconomics, no. 3, Martin Baily and Clifford Winston, eds., pp. 833-871, 1987.

  30. The Empirical Renaissance in Industrial Economics, Edited with Richard Schmalensee, (New York: Basil Blackwell), 1987.

  31. (with Richard Schmalensee) "The Empirical Renaissance in Industrial Economics: An Overview," Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. XXXV (no. 4, June--special issue), pp. 371-378, 1987. Reprinted in The Empirical Renaissance in Industrial Economics, 1987.

  32. "Competition and Collusion in the American Automobile Market: The 1955 Price War," Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. XXXV (no. 4, June--special issue) pp. 457-482, 1987. Reprinted in The Empirical Renaissance in Industrial Economics, 1987.

  33. "Measuring the Spillovers from Technical Advance: Mainframe Computers in Financial Services," American Economic Review, vol. 76 (no. 4, September), pp. 742-755, 1986.

  34. (with Pablo Spiller) "Futures Market Backwardation under Risk Neutrality," Economic Inquiry, vol. XXIV (July), pp. 429-441, 1986.Publications (continued)

  35. (with Steven Salop) "Quantifying the Competitive Effects of Production Joint Ventures," International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 4, pp. 155-175, 1986.

  36. "The Demand for Advertising by Medium: Implications for Economies of Scale in Advertising," in Paula Ippolito, ed., Empirical Approaches to Consumer Protection Issues, (Washington, DC: Federal Trade Commission), 1986.

  37. The Transition to Competition in the Plain Paper Copier Industry, (Washington, DC: Federal Trade Commission), 1986.

  38. (with Dennis Yao) "The Nonpecuniary Costs of Automobile Emissions Controls," Rand Journal of Economics vol. 16 (no. 4, Winter), pp. 437-455, 1985.

  39. (with Peter Reiss) "Dealer and Manufacturer Margins," Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 16 (no. 2, Summer), 253-268, 1985.

  40. (with Jonathan Baker) "The Gains from Merger or Collusion in Product Differentiated Industries," Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. XXXIII (no. 4, June), pp. 427-444, 1985.

  41. (with Valerie Suslow) "Inventories as an Asset: The Volatility of Copper Prices," International Economic Review, vol. 26 (no. 2, June), pp. 409-424, 1985.

  42. "Post-Entry Competition in the Plain Paper Copier Market," American Economic Review, vol. 75 (no. 2, May), pp. 15-19, 1985.

  43. "Existence of Consistent Conjectures: Reply," American Economic Review, vol. 73 (no. 3, June), pp. 457-458, 1983.

  44. "Duopoly Models with Consistent Conjectures: Reply," American Economic Review, vol. 73 (no. 1, March), pp. 240-241, 19831.3.

  45. "The Oligopoly Solution Concept is Identified," Economics Letters, vol. 10, pp. 87-92, 1982.

  46. "Duopoly Models with Consistent Conjectures," American Economic Review, vol. 71 (no. 5, December), pp. 934-945, 1981.

  47. (with Holland Hunter and Everett J. Rutan, III) "Modeling Structural Change Using Early Soviet Data," Journal of Development Economics, vol. 9, pp. 65-87, 1981.

  48. "Prices, Quantities and Qualities in the American Auto Market," Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Section on Statistical Education, pp. 18-23, 1981.

  49. "Departures from Marginal-Cost Pricing in the American Automobile Industry: Estimates for 1977- 1978," Journal of Econometrics vol. 17, pp. 201-227, 1981.

  50. Three Essays on the American Automobile Oligopoly, Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University, 1980.

BOOK AND RELATED REVIEWS

  1. Comments on "Valuation of New Goods Under Perfect and Imperfect Competition" by Jerry Hausman The Economics of New Goods.

  2. Comments on "The Information-Integrated Channel: A Study of the U.S. Apparel Industry in Transition" by Hammond et al., Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, v 0, n 0, 0007-2303, pp. 232-36, 1995.

  3. Comments on "Competition, Regulation, and Efficiency in Service Industries" by Martin N. Baily, in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, no. 2, pp. 71-159, 1993.

  4. Comments on "Productivity Dynamics in Manufacturing Plants," by by Martin N. Baily et al., in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, pp. 187-267, 1992.

  5. Review Essay on Sunk Costs and Market Structure, by John Sutton, Summer 1992, RAND Journal of Economics.

  6. Review of "The Measurement of Durable Goods Prices," by Robert J. Gordon, in Business History Review, (3) pp.355-357, 1991.

  7. Discussion of "Organizing Industrial Organization: Reflections on the Handbook of Industrial Organization," by Franklin M. Fisher, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, pp. 201-225, 1991.

  8. Review of The Dynamics of Company Profits: An International Comparison, Dennis C. Mueller, ed., in Journal of Economic Literature, vol. XXIX (December 1991).

  9. Review of Regulating the Automobile, Robert Crandall et al., in Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 17 (no. 4, Winter), 1986.

  10. Review of Breaking up Bell: Essays on Industrial Organization and Regulation, David S. Evans, ed., in Information Economics and Policy, vol. 2, pp. 87-89, 1986.

  11. Review of The Future of the Automobile: The Report of MIT's International Automobile Program, Alan Altschuler, et al., in Journal of Economic Literature, vol. XXIV (no. 1, March), pp. 128-129, 1986.

  12. "'Conjoint Analysis of Price Premiums for Hotel Amenities': Comment," Journal of Business, vol. 57 (no. 1, pt. 2, January), pp. S133-S138, 1984.

  13. Review of Competition in the Open Economy: a Model Applied to Canada, R. E. Caves, et al., in Journal of Economic Literature, vol. XIX (no. 3, September), pp. 1116-1117, 1981.

WORKING PAPERS AND WORK IN PROGRESS

  1. (with Franco Malerba) "Industrial Dynamics and the Evolution of Firms' and Nations' Competitive Capabilities in the World Computer Industry."

  2. (with Thomas N. Hubbard) "The Commercialization of Information Technologies."

  3. (with Paul David) "The Diffusion of Automatic Teller Machines Across U.S. Banks," in The Diffusion of New Technologies, Paul David and Giovanni Dosi, eds., (New York: Oxford University Press), forthcoming.

  4. (with Shane Greenstein) "Technological Competition and the Structure of the Computer Industry," Center for Economic Policy Research Publication No. 315, September 1992.

  5. (with Daniel Raff) "Technological Heterogeneity, Adjustment Costs and the Dynamics of Plant-Shut- Down Behavior: The American Motor Vehicle in the Time of the Great Depression".

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