2004 Headlines
Johnson School Professor Michael Waldman is Ranked in World?s Top 270 EconomistsOctober 19, 2004, Ithaca, New York The Johnson Graduate School of Management is pleased to announce that the Charles H. Dyson Professor in Management Michael Waldman has been ranked among the top 270 economists in the world, according to Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), an online organization whose mission is to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. "I am very honored and pleased to have been included in this extraordinary list of top economists," commented Waldman, who has been teaching and publishing research at the Johnson School since 1991. RePEc is a volunteer-driven initiative that created a public-access database that promotes scholarly communication in economics and related disciplines. Their decentralized database includes information on working papers, journal articles, and software components. RePEc recently ranked the top 5 percent of their economists worldwide, according to each author?s number of publications, citations, and number of published journal pages. Professor Waldman was ranked at #204. Other Cornell professors to make this list include Fran Blau at #225 (School of Industrial and Labor Relations), Larry Kahn at #229 (School of Industrial and Labor Relations), Ron Ehrenberg at #242 (School of Industrial and Labor Relations), and Steve Coate at #250 (College of Arts and Sciences - Economics Department). Professor Waldman's main research interests lie in microeconomic theory, with specific applications to the fields of industrial organization, labor economics, and the theory of organizations. He has been published in most of the top journals in economics, including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Perspectives, and Rand Journal of Economics. Recent publications have considered such diverse topics as the role of leasing in the new-car market, the strategic role of product tying in enhancing market power, and wage and promotion dynamics inside firms. Professor Waldman is currently a Co-Editor at the Journal of Economic Perspectives, an Associate Editor at the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and he is listed in both the third and fourth editions of Who's Who in Economics. He came to the Johnson School from UCLA's Department of Economics, and he has also been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business and Yale University's School of Organization and Management. At the Johnson School he teaches the core microeconomics course. The Johnson School at Cornell University, founded in 1946, is Cornell's graduate school of management. The Johnson School combines leading edge intellectual capital with "real time, real world" business practice and is among the top business schools in the world. Opportunities for experiential learning, such as immersion programs and student-run venture capital and mutual funds, distinguish the Johnson School's curricula. Programs include MBA and doctoral degrees, a twelve-month MBA option for students with advanced degrees in science or engineering and an executive MBA. The Johnson School is located at the center of Cornell University-the largest of the Ivy League schools and one of the world's top research institutions. For more about the Johnson School please visit: www.johnson.cornell.edu. Research Papers in Economics is a volunteer-driven initiative to create a public-access database that promotes scholarly communication in economics and related disciplines. The database contains information on more than 280,000 items, including professionals, institutions, working papers, articles, books, and software. RePEc's capabilities are unique in this regard: the RePEc database links information on the published and unpublished works of thousands of economists. For information on RePEc, please visit: www.repec.org. For More Information |
