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	Hal R. Varian Professor Haas Operations and Information Technology Management Group Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address Academic Status: On leave Personal Homepage: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MA, Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
PhD, Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Positions Held

At Haas since 1995
2007 Chief Economist, Google
1995 - present, Professor, Haas School of Business
1995 - present, Class of 1944 Professor, UC Berkeley
1995 - present, Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
1995 - 2003, Dean, School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley
1984 - 1996, Reuben Kempf Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
1983 - 1996, Professor of Finance, University of Michigan
1977 - 1984, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
1973 - 1977, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Visiting Positions

UC Berkeley
Stanford University
University of Stockholm
Helsinki School of Business
Nuffield College, Oxford
Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
University of Arizona

External Service and Assignments

Co-editor, American Economic Review

Current Research and Interests

Economics of information technology
Information technology strategy

Selected Papers and Publications

"Economic Mechanism Design for Computerized Agents," Proceedings of Usenix Conference on Electronic Commerce. (New York). (July 11-12, 1995).
"The Information Economy." Scientific American (September 1995): 200-202.
"Versioning: the Smart Way to Sell Information," Harvard Business Review (November-December 1998).
"Standards Wars." California Management Review (1999).
Microeconomic Analysis. W. W. Norton and Company, 1978. Abstract
Intermediate Microeconomics. W. W. Norton and Company, 1987.
Workouts for Intermediate Microeconomics, with Theodore Bergstrom. W. W. Norton and Company, 1987. Abstract
Economic and Financial Modeling with Mathematica. TELOS/Springer-Verlag, 1992. (Editor.)
Computational Economics: Economic and Financial Analysis with Mathematica. TELOS/Springer-Verlag, 1996. (Editor.)
Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy, with Carl Shapiro. Harvard Business School Press, 1998.

Teaching

Strategic Computing and Communications Technology, BA C290-D

Honors and Awards

John von Neumann Award, Hungarian School of Economics, 1996
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, 1995
Siena Chair in Economics (Fulbright Distinguished Lecturing Award), Siena, Italy, 1990
Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1984
Econometrics Society Fellow, 1983
Guggenheim Fellow, 1979-1980
National Science Foundation Fellow, 1970-1973

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