Coase Foundation Fellows

J. Gregory Sidak
jgsidak@coasefoundation.org

J. Gregory Sidak is the founder and president of The Coase Foundation. He is the Ronald Coase Professor of Law and Economics at Tilburg University in The Netherlands and chairman of Criterion Economics, L.L.C. in Washington, D.C. He is an internationally recognized expert on antitrust, intellectual property, regulation of network industries, and complex economic litigation. He has served in the U.S. government as both an economist and a lawyer. Professor Sidak edits the Journal of Competition Law & Economics for the Oxford University Press and has written extensively on antitrust, intellectual property, and regulation for three decades. Professor Sidak earned A.B. (1977) and A.M. (1981) degrees in economics and a J.D. (1981), all from Stanford University. He was an editor of the Stanford Law Review. In 1981, Professor Sidak became Judge Richard A. Posner’s first law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The Supreme Court first cited one of Professor Sidak’s articles on antitrust three years later, when he was twenty-eight years old. Since that time, his books and articles have been cited by the Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of Canada, the European Commission, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the Supreme Court of California, and many other courts and regulatory commissions.

Jerry A. Hausman
jhausman@coasefoundation.org

Jerry A. Hausman is the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has taught at MIT for thirty years. Professor Hausman has made contributions to a number of areas of economics. He has published numerous articles on econometrics and applied microeconomics, including work on differentiated products and on telecommunications, taxation, the economics of aging, and energy and environmental economics. His recent applied economics papers examine topics such as the effect of new goods on economic welfare and their measurement in the CPI; new telecommunications technologies, including cellular 3G and broadband; regulation of telecommunications and railroads; and competition in network markets. His recent econometrics papers include estimation of difference-in-difference models, semi-parametric duration models, weak instruments, and errors in variable in non-standard situations. He has been an editor of the Bell Journal of Economics, Econometrica, and the RAND Journal of Economics. Professor Hausman's research has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Professor Hausman received the John Bates Clark Award from the American Economics Association in 1985 for the most outstanding contributions to economics by an economist under 40 years of age. He also received the Frisch Medal from the Econometric Society. Professor Hausman earned an A.B. (1968) from Brown University, and a B. Phil. (1972) and D. Phil. (1973) from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

Paul W. MacAvoy

Paul W. MacAvoy is the Williams Brothers Professor Emeritus of Management Studies at the Yale School of Management. He has held chaired professorships at MIT and the University of Rochester and was Dean of the Management Schools at Rochester and Yale. Professor MacAvoy served on President Ford’s Council of Economic Advisors and as the cochairman of the President’s Task Force on Regulatory Reform. His work has been cited by the Supreme Court. He holds honorary doctorates from Bates College and Sacred Heart University, and the Cross Medal from Yale University.

Professor MacAvoy has written numerous journal articles and books, including The Unsustainable Costs of Partial Deregulation (Yale University Press) and The Failure of Antitrust and Regulation to Establish Competition in Long-Distance Telephone Services (The MIT Press). He was a founding editor of the Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, now the RAND Journal of Economics. Currently, Professor MacAvoy is editing and annotating a selection of letters and papers that he wrote while a member of the Council of Economic Advisors, from 1975-1976.

He has sat on the Boards of Directors of the Alumax Corporation, the American Cyanamid Corporation, the Chase Manhattan Bank Corporation, the LaFarge Corporation, and the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation. He earned an A.B. (1955) from Bates College, and M.A. (1956) and Ph.D. (1960) degrees from Yale University.

David J. Teece
dteece@coasefoundation.org

Professor David J. Teece is the Thomas W. Tusher Professor of Global Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. His research concerns the theory of the firm and strategic management, the economics of technological change, knowledge management, technology transfer, and antitrust economics and innovation. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University, and has also received three honorary doctorates. Professor Teece has testified before Congress on regulatory policy and competition policy, is the author of more than 200 books and articles, and is the editor of the journal Industrial & Corporate Change, Oxford University Press. His most recent book is Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management: Organizing for Innovation and Growth (Oxford University Press 2009). Professor Teece's research has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States.

According to Science Watch, he is the lead author on the most cited article in economics and business worldwide, 1995–2005. He is also one of the top 10 cited scholars in economics and business for the decade, and has been recognized by Accenture as one of the world's top 50 business intellectuals.