Ph.D. Students

Coordinator Andrew King's research investigates the interrelation of information costs, transaction costs, and social organization. At the firm level, Prof. King investigates how managers can use the control of structure and assets to create an internal market for information transfer. At the interfirm level, he investigates how actors form associations to regulate behavior and to facilitate or impede information transfer.

Andrew King

Michael Lenox

Assistant Professor Michael Lenox studies the economics of organization with an interest in the role of incentives and information on the rate and direction of innovation within firms. He has an applied interest in understanding under what circumstances firms pursue innovative activities that have a public good spillover, in particular, innovations that benefit the natural environment. His current research examines the sources of difficulty in diffusing valuable practices and knowledge within organizations and explores how managers may structure information flows so as to overcome problems of coordination and control.

Professor Roy Radner is a distinguished economist whose interests include decentralization of information, decisions, and incentives. With respect to the environment, he has become increasingly interested in applying game-theoretic methods to issues of negotiated solutions to collective problems such as global warming. He hopes to be able to better understand and model methods for solving governance problems in global commons.

Roy Radner

Myles Shaver

Associate Professor Myles Shaver's research to date has investigated the strategic decisions of multinational corporations. In their structure, these decisions share many properties with decisions to join (or not) voluntary regulations. Prof. Shaver also has begun to investigate how regulation influences the decisions of multinational corporations, and how these decisions influence their environmental performance. In a joint paper with Andrew King, Prof. Shaver contrasts and test several theories of foreign-firm environmental performance in the United States.

Assistant Professor Kimberly Wade-Benzoni  Professor Wade-Benzoni's research in conflict management and decision making focuses on intergenerational allocation decisions, asymmetrical social dilemmas, ethics and the natural environment.  In 1995, she received a multi-year grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency based on her research on intergenerational issues.  She is co-editor of the book, Environment, Ethics, and Behavior: The Psychology of Environmental Valuation and Degradation, and of a special issue of American Behavioral Scientist on "Barriers to Wiser Agreements between Environmental and Economic Concerns."

Kimberly Wade-Benzoni

 

	Abraham Krasnoff Professor Bernard Yeung Professor Yeung joined stern from the University of Michigan in 1999.  His interests include international trade, investment policies and firm behavior; foreign direct investment and multinational firm economics; international comparison of stock markets and stock price behavior; and firm size, growth, productivity, and survival.
Michael Barnett is a PhD candidate at NYU.Mike is examining how firms individually pursue competitive advantage through collective activity aimed at manipulation of their institutional environment.  In his dissertation, Mike explores two main research questions: When will rival firms cooperate to pursue institutional change, and what are the firm-level performance implications of such collective action? This research builds on the article “Strategic responses to the reputation commons problem” that Mike co-authored with Andy King and Mike Lenox

 

Susan Rodriguez – Susan joined the team in the 2001.  She is interested in corporate strategy & the impact on the natural environment, multinational corporations and their global business practices (especially in developing countries), environmental sustainability through economic incentives and non-regulatory initiatives.

 

Ann Terlaak Ann is a PhD candidate at UCSB. She is in interested in the adoption process and consequences of voluntary management standards. In her dissertation, she is investigating how strategic behavior and institutional pressures combine to shape the adoption pattern of the ISO 9000 quality management standard. She also is interested in environmental voluntary programs and has studied the costs and benefits of participation for firms. With Magali Delmas, she has performed a cross-national analysis to investigate how different institutional environments make more or less feasible the implementation of such programs.

Ann Terlaak