Landau Professor in Technology and the Economy at Stanford University,
Timothy E. Bresnahan studies competition in high technology industries. He is a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. A graduate of Haverford College, he earned his Ph.D. in economics at Princeton University in 1980. He had joined the Stanford economics faculty the previous year as an assistant professor and was appointed a full professor in 1991. He was named to his present chair in 2002. Dr. Bresnahan has served as the Marvin Bower Fellow and a visiting associate professor at the Harvard Business School, a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution, and a visiting professor at the Instituto de Analisis Economico in Bellaterra, Spain. He spent 1999-2000 as deputy assistant attorney general and chief economist in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, he is the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching given by Stanford University. He previously served as co-editor of the RAND Journal of Economics and as an associate editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the American Economic Review. The author or co-author of some seventy-five papers published in scholarly journals or as chapters in volumes of collected works, Dr. Bresnahan is the co-editor (with Richard Schmalensee) of The Empirical Renaissance in Industrial Economics (1987) and the co-author (with Robert J. Gordon) of The Economics of New Goods (1997) and (with Alfonso Gambardella) of Building High-Tech Clusters: Silicon Valley and Beyond, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2004.