Oliver E. Williamson | |
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Born |
Oliver Eaton Williamson September 27, 1932 Superior, Wisconsin |
Nationality | United States |
Institution |
University of California, Berkeley Yale University University of Pennsylvania |
Field | Microeconomics |
School or tradition |
New Institutional Economics |
Alma mater |
Carnegie Mellon, (Ph.D. 1963) Stanford, (MBA 1960) MIT, (B.Sc 1955) |
Influences |
Chester Barnard Ronald Coase Richard Cyert Ian Roderick Macneil Herbert A. Simon John R. Commons |
Influenced | Paul L. Joskow |
Awards |
John von Neumann Award (1999) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2009) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
John von Neumann Award (1999)
Oliver Eaton Williamson (born September 27, 1932) is an American economist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
A student of Ronald Coase, Herbert A. Simon and Richard Cyert, he specializes in transaction cost economics. Williamson attended Central High School in Superior, Wisconsin. He received his B.S. in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1955, MBA from Stanford University in 1960, and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1963. From 1965 to 1983 he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and from 1983 to 1988, Gordon B. Tweedy Professor of Economics of Law and Organization at Yale University. He has held professorships in business administration, economics, and law at the University of California, Berkeley since 1988 and is the Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus at the Haas School of Business. As a Fulbright Distinguished Chair, in 1999 he taught Economics at the University of Siena.