Timothy Bresnahan

Research Interests: Industrial organization, applied econometrics, the economics of technology.
Current Research: Competition in high technology industries; technical change by users of information technologies.
Teaching Interests: Econometrics, industrial organization, microeconomics.

Timothy Bresnahan is the Landau Professor of Technology and the Economy and, by courtesy, a Professor of Economics for the Graduate School of Business. He is the former Chief Economist of the Antitrust Division of the U. S. Department of Justice. His research focuses on industrial organization, applied econometrics, and the economics of technology. Currently, he is researching entry and appropriability in technology industries, competition between old and new-paradigm computing, and economic organization for high social return to technical progress.