John Morgan (economist)


John Morgan is the Oliver E. Williamson and Dolores J. Williamson Chair in the Economics of Organizations at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is the founding director of the U.C. Berkeley Experimental Social Sciences Laboratory. He has been a member of the editorial board of the California Management Review since 2003. He is the faculty leader of the Center for Executive Education at UC Berkeley.

Life

He received his B.S. in economics summa cum laude in 1989 from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D. in 1996 from Pennsylvania State University. His Ph.D. dissertation, entitled Essays on Auctions, Lotteries, and Contracts, was written under the supervision of Vijay Krishna, Professor of Economics Penn State University.
He worked with Bankruptcy and Forensic Accounting Group, Grant Thornton International, from 1989 to 1992, and as Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University from 1996 to 2002. He was also a visiting professor at Pennsylvania State University, New York University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge and University of Oxford.

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