Information Economics

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Joshua Blumenstock

Assistant Professor
Alumni (PhD 2012)
jblumenstock@berkeley.edu
Website
Focus: Development Economics, Data Science, Econometrics, Machine Learning, ICTD
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John Chuang

Professor
chuang@ischool.berkeley.edu
Website
Focus: Bio-sensory computing; information economics and policy
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Steven Weber

Professor (I School and Dept. of Political Science)
stevew@ischool.berkeley.edu
Website
Focus: International politics, international business, and the information economy; Cybersecurity; Behavioral economics within Information Systems
(510) 643-3755

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

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Information Economics news

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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.

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