John Morgan (November 11, 1967 – October 6, 2021) was the

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and Dolores J. Williamson Chair in the Economics of Organizations at the

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. He was the founding director of the U.C. Berkeley Experimental Social Sciences Laboratory (Xlab). He was a member of the editorial board of the California Management Review since 2003. He was the faculty leader of the Center for Executive Education at UC Berkeley.

Life

Morgan was born on November 11, 1967 in

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. He received his

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in economics '' summa cum laude'' in 1989 from

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and

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in 1996 from Pennsylvania State University. His Ph.D. dissertation, entitled ''Essays on Auctions, Lotteries, and Contracts'', was written under the supervision of Vijay Krishna, Professor of Economics Penn State University.Education
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, from 1989 to 1992, and as Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs,

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from 1996 to 2002. He was also a visiting professor at Pennsylvania State University,

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, Stanford University,

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and

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. Morgan died on October 6, 2021 in

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Awards and honors

* W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship, 2001–2002. *

Award,

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, 2014

Selected articles and publications

* Information Gatekeepers on the Internet and the Competitiveness of Homogeneous Product Market

(with Michael Baye), American Economic Review, 91 (2001), 454–74. * A model of expertis

V Krishna, J Morgan - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001. * Voluntary voting: Costs and benefits, (with Vijay Krishna), Published: November 201

Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, 147(6), pp. 2083–2123. *An analysis of stock recommendation

J Morgan, PC Stocken - RAND Journal of economics, 2003.

References

External links

* Voted Off The Island At Berkeley Haa

* Invitation to Scott Adam

1967 births 2021 deaths University of California, Berkeley faculty Pennsylvania State University alumni People from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Economists from Pennsylvania 21st-century American economists {{US-economist-stub