Information Economics

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Joshua Blumenstock

Assistant Professor
Alumni (PhD 2012)

Development Economics, Data Science, Econometrics, Machine Learning, ICTD

John Chuang

Head of School, Associate Dean, and Professor

Bio-sensory computing; brainwave authentication; information economics and policy

Steven Weber

Faculty Director, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity and Professor (I School and Dept. of Political Science)

International politics, international business, and the information economy; Cybersecurity; Behavioral economics within Information Systems

Recent Publications

Legally Speaking: The dead souls of the Google book search settlement

Jul 1, 2009

Exploring Digital Content in the Age of Peer-to-Peer

Jul 1, 2009

Universal Access to Information

Oct 1, 2005

Information Economics news

Hal Varian Named AEA Distinguished Fellow

Apr 30, 2015

Hal Varian, professor emeritus and former dean of the School of Information, has been named a 2015 Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association.

Why Surveillance Leads to Government Corruption

Jul 11, 2014

Once a pervasive surveillance infrastructure is in place, a government will always have an incentive to abuse that power, according to new research.

I School's First Endowed Chair Will Be the Hal R. Varian Chair in Information Economics

Jan 19, 2012

The School of Information is delighted to announce the creation of its first endowed chair, the Hal R. Varian Chair in Information Economics, thanks to a generous gift from Hal R. Varian, the founding dean of the I School and now the Chief Economist at Google, with matching funds from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Joshua Blumenstock Wins Braunstein Prize for Best Student Research Paper

Dec 16, 2011

Blumenstock’s research measures how person-to-person financial transfers via mobile phone affect the risk and income volatility of the agriculturally-based economies of rural Rwanda.

New Grant Supports Josh Blumenstock's Research on "Mobile Money" and the 2008 Rwandan Earthquake

Aug 5, 2011

Blumenstock is analyzing a database of every interpersonal monetary transfer over Rwanda's primary telecom network from 2005-2009, including over 1 billion transfers and phone calls by 1 million individuals.