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Timothy Bresnahan

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First Name:Timothy
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RePEc Short-ID:pbr34
http://www.stanford.edu/~tbres/
Economics-6072 Stanford, CA 94305 USA
Terminal Degree:1980 Department of Economics; Princeton University (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

(25%) Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Stanford University

Stanford, California (United States)
http://siepr.stanford.edu/
RePEc:edi:cestaus (more details at EDIRC)

(25%) Center for Research on Employment and Economic Growth
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Stanford University

Stanford, California (United States)
http://siepr.stanford.edu/programdetailprofile/5
RePEc:edi:crstaus (more details at EDIRC)

(25%) Department of Economics
Stanford University

Stanford, California (United States)
https://economics.stanford.edu/
RePEc:edi:destaus (more details at EDIRC)

(25%) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
http://www.nber.org/
RePEc:edi:nberrus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Timothy Bresnahan & Pai-Ling Yin, 2016. "Adoption of New Information and Communications Technologies in the Workplace Today," NBER Working Papers 22346, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Timothy Bresnahan & Shane Greenstein, 2014. "Mobile Computing: The Next Platform Rivalry," Discussion Papers 13-030, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
  3. Timothy Bresnahan & Jason Davis & Pai-Ling Yin, 2013. "Economic Value Creation in Mobile Applications," Discussion Papers 13-007, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
  4. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Jonathan D. Levin, 2012. "Vertical Integration and Market Structure," NBER Working Papers 17889, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Timothy Bresnahan & Pai-Ling Yin, 2010. "Reallocating Innovative Resources Around Growth Bottlenecks," Discussion Papers 09-022, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
  6. Timothy F Bresnahan, 2004. "Network Effects in the Microsoft Case," Levine's Working Paper Archive 228400000000000008, David K. Levine.
  7. Bresnahan, Timothy, 2004. "Creative Destruction in the PC Industry," IIR Working Paper 05-03, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University.
  8. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Erik Brynjolfsson & Lorin M. Hitt, 1999. "Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-Level Evidence," NBER Working Papers 7136, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  9. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Franco Malerba, 1997. "Industrial Dynamics and the Evolution of Firms' and Nations' Competitive Capabilities in the World Computer Industry," Working Papers 97030, Stanford University, Department of Economics.
  10. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Alfonso Gambardella, 1997. "The Division of Inventive Labor and The Extent of The Market," Working Papers 97029, Stanford University, Department of Economics.
  11. Timothy F. Bresnahan, 1997. "Computerization and Wage Dispersion: An Analytical Reinterpretation," Working Papers 97031, Stanford University, Department of Economics.
  12. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Shane Greenstein, 1997. "Technological Competition and the Structure of the Computer Industry," Working Papers 97028, Stanford University, Department of Economics.
  13. Bresnahan, T.F. & Stern, S. & Trajtenberg, M., 1996. "Market Segmentation and the Sources of Rents From Innovation: Personal Computers in the Late 1980s," Papers 25-96, Tel Aviv.
  14. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Shane Greenstein, 1994. "The Competitive Crash in Large-Scale Commercial Computing," NBER Working Papers 4901, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  15. Bresnahan, T.F. & Raff, D.M.G., 1993. "Technological Heterogeneity, Adjustment Costs, and the Dynamics of Plant Shutdown Behavior: The American Motor Vehicule Industry in the Time of the Great Depression," Papers 93-09, Columbia - Graduate School of Business.
  16. Bertin, A.L. & Bresnahan, T.F. & Raff, D.M.G., 1993. "Localized Competition and the Aggregation of Plant Level Increasing Returns: Blast Furnaces 1929-1935," Papers 93-10a, Columbia - Graduate School of Business.
  17. Trajtenberg, M. & Bresnahan, T.F., 1992. "General Purpose Technologies: "Engines of Growth"," Papers 16-92, Tel Aviv.
  18. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Valerie A. Ramey, 1992. "Output Fluctuations at the Plant Level," NBER Working Papers 4105, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  19. Bresnahan, T.F & Reiss, P.C., 1989. "Entry And Competition In Concentrated Markets," Papers 151, Stanford - Studies in Industry Economics.

Articles

  1. Timothy F Bresnahan, 2019. "Technological change in ICT in light of ideas first learned about the machine tool industry," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 28(2), pages 331-349.
  2. Timothy Bresnahan & Pai-Ling Yin, 2017. "Adoption of New Information and Communications Technologies in the Workplace Today," Innovation Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 17(1), pages 95-124.
  3. Timothy Bresnahan & Shane Greenstein, 2014. "Mobile Computing: The Next Platform Rivalry," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 104(5), pages 475-480, May.
  4. Bresnahan Timothy F., 2012. "Comment on "Concentration in Internet Access and Entrepreneurial Truncation of Innovation" (by Shane Greenstein)," Capitalism and Society, De Gruyter, vol. 7(1), pages 1-15, November.
  5. Timothy Bresnahan & Pai-Ling Yin, 2010. "Reallocating innovative resources around growth bottlenecks," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 19(5), pages 1589-1627, October.
  6. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Pai-Lin Yin, 2005. "Economic and Technical Drivers of Technology Choices: Browsers," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 79-80, pages 629-670.
  7. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Erik Brynjolfsson & Lorin M. Hitt, 2002. "Information Technology, Workplace Organization, and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-Level Evidence," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 117(1), pages 339-376.
  8. Timothy Bresnahan, 2002. "Comments on “Reforming European Meyer Review: Targeting Problem Areas in Policy Outcomes”," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Springer, vol. 2(4), pages 379-390, December.
  9. Bresnahan, Timothy F & Gambardella, Alfonso & Saxenian, AnnaLee, 2001. "'Old Economy' Inputs for 'New Economy' Outcomes: Cluster Formation in the New Silicon Valleys," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 10(4), pages 835-860, December.
  10. Shane Greenstein & Timothy F. Bresnahan, 2001. "special issue: The economic contribution of information technology: Towards comparative and user studies," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 11(1), pages 95-118.
  11. Bresnahan, Timothy F, 1999. "Computerisation and Wage Dispersion: An Analytical Reinterpretation," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 109(456), pages 390-415, June.
  12. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Shane Greenstein, 1999. "Technological Competition and the Structure of the Computer Industry," Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(1), pages 1-40, March.
  13. Bresnahan, Timothy & Richards, John, 1999. "Local and Global Competition in Information Technology," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 13(4), pages 336-371, December.
  14. Timothy Bresnahan & Shane Greenstein, 1996. "Technical Progress and Co-invention in Computing and in the Uses of Computers," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 27(1996 Micr), pages 1-83.
  15. Bertin, Amy L & Bresnahan, Timothy F & Raff, Daniel M G, 1996. "Localized Competition and the Aggregation of Plant-Level Increasing Returns: Blast Furnaces, 1929-1935," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 104(2), pages 241-266, April.
  16. Bresnahan, Timothy F. & Trajtenberg, M., 1995. "General purpose technologies 'Engines of growth'?," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 65(1), pages 83-108, January.
  17. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Peter C. Reiss, 1994. "Measuring the Importance of Sunk Costs," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 34, pages 159-180.
  18. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Valerie A. Ramey, 1994. "Output Fluctuations at the Plant Level," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 109(3), pages 593-624.
  19. Bresnahan, Timothy F & Ramey, Valerie A, 1993. "Segment Shifts and Capacity Utilization in the U.S. Automobile Industry," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 83(2), pages 213-218, May.
  20. Timothy F. Bresnahan, 1992. "Sutton's Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising, and the Evolution of Concentration," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 23(1), pages 137-152, Spring.
  21. Bresnahan, Timothy F. & Reiss, Peter C., 1991. "Empirical models of discrete games," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 48(1-2), pages 57-81.
  22. Bresnahan, Timothy F & Reiss, Peter C, 1991. "Entry and Competition in Concentrated Markets," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 99(5), pages 977-1009, October.
  23. Bresnahan, Timothy F. & Raff, Daniel M. G., 1991. "Intra-Industry Heterogeneity and the Great Depression: The American Motor Vehicles Industry, 1929–1935," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 51(2), pages 317-331, June.
  24. Bresnahan, Timothy F., 1990. "The Measurement of Durable Goods Prices. ByRobert J. Gordon · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1990. xviii + 723 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, references, and index. $85.00," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 64(2), pages 355-357, July.
  25. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Peter C. Reiss, 1990. "Entry in Monopoly Market," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 57(4), pages 531-553.
  26. Bresnahan, Timothy F & Suslow, Valerie Y, 1989. "Short-run Supply with Capacity Constraints," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 32(2), pages 11-42, October.
  27. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Valérie Y. Suslow, 1989. "Oligopoly Pricing with Capacity Constraints," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 15-16, pages 267-289.
  28. Baker, Jonathan B. & Bresnahan, Timothy F., 1988. "Estimating the residual demand curve facing a single firm," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 6(3), pages 283-300.
  29. Bresnahan, Timothy F, 1987. "Competition and Collusion in the American Automobile Industry: The 1955 Price War," Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(4), pages 457-482, June.
  30. Bresnahan, Timothy F & Schmalensee, Richard, 1987. "The Empirical Renaissance in Industrial Economics: An Overview," Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(4), pages 371-378, June.
  31. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Peter C. Reiss, 1987. "Do Entry Conditions Vary across Markets?," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 18(3, Specia), pages 833-882.
  32. Bresnahan, Timothy F. & Salop, Steven C., 1986. "Quantifying the competitive effects of production joint ventures," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 4(2), pages 155-175, June.
  33. Timothy F. Bresnahan, 1986. "Crandall, Gruenspecht, Keeler, and Lave's Regulating the Automobile," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 17(4), pages 641-645, Winter.
  34. Bresnahan, Timothy F., 1986. "Breaking up bell: Essays on industrial organization and regulation : David S. Evans, ed., (North-Holland, New York, 1983) $25.00," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 2(1), pages 87-89.
  35. Bresnahan, Timothy F, 1986. "Measuring the Spillovers from Technical Advance: Mainframe Computers inFinancial Services," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 76(4), pages 742-755, September.
  36. Bresnahan, Timothy F & Spiller, Pablo T, 1986. "Futures Market Backwardation under Risk Neutrality," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 24(3), pages 429-441, July.
  37. Bresnahan, Timothy F & Suslow, Valerie Y, 1985. "Inventories as an Asset: The Volatility of Copper Prices," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 26(2), pages 409-424, June.
  38. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Peter C. Reiss, 1985. "Dealer and Manufacturer Margins," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 16(2), pages 253-268, Summer.
  39. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Dennis A. Yao, 1985. "The Nonpecuniary Costs of Automobile Emissions Standards," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 16(4), pages 437-455, Winter,.
  40. Bresnahan, Timothy F, 1985. "Post-entry Competition in the Plain Paper Copier Market," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 75(2), pages 15-19, May.
  41. Bresnahan, Timothy F, 1984. "Comment on "Conjoint Analysis of Price Premiums for Hotel Amenities."," The Journal of Business, University of Chicago Press, vol. 57(1), pages 133-138, January.
  42. Bresnahan, Timothy F, 1983. "Existence of Consistent Conjectures: Reply," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 73(3), pages 457-458, June.
  43. Bresnahan, Timothy F, 1983. "Duopoly Models with Consistent Conjectures: Reply," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 73(1), pages 240-241, March.
  44. Bresnahan, Timothy F., 1982. "The oligopoly solution concept is identified," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 10(1-2), pages 87-92.
  45. Bresnahan, Timothy F., 1981. "Departures from marginal-cost pricing in the American automobile industry : Estimates for 1977-1978," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 17(2), pages 201-227, November.
  46. Hunter, Holland & Bresnahan, Timothy F. & Rutan, Everett III, 1981. "Modeling structural change using early Soviet data," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 9(1), pages 65-87, August.
  47. Bresnahan, Timothy F, 1981. "Duopoly Models with Consistent Conjectures," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 71(5), pages 934-945, December.

Chapters

  1. Timothy Bresnahan & Pai-Ling Yin, 2016. "Adoption of New Information and Communications Technologies in the Workplace Today," NBER Chapters, in: Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 17, pages 95-124, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Timothy F. Bresnahan, 2015. "Comment on "Modularity and the Evolution of the Internet"," NBER Chapters, in: Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy, pages 47-53, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Jason P. Davis & Pai-Ling Yin, 2014. "Economic Value Creation in Mobile Applications," NBER Chapters, in: The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, pages 233-286, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Timothy Bresnahan & Jonathan Levin, 2012. "Vertical Integration and Market Structure [The Handbook of Organizational Economics]," Introductory Chapters,, Princeton University Press.
  5. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Shane Greenstein & Rebecca M. Henderson, 2011. "Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM," NBER Chapters, in: The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, pages 203-271, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Timothy F. Bresnahan, 2011. "Generality, Recombination, and Reuse," NBER Chapters, in: The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, pages 611-656, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  7. Bresnahan, Timothy, 2010. "General Purpose Technologies," Handbook of the Economics of Innovation, in: Bronwyn H. Hall & Nathan Rosenberg (ed.), Handbook of the Economics of Innovation, edition 1, volume 2, chapter 0, pages 761-791, Elsevier.
  8. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Pai-Ling Yin, 2010. "Economic and Technical Drivers of Technology Choice: Browsers," NBER Chapters, in: Contributions in Memory of Zvi Griliches, pages 629-670, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  9. Timothy F. Bresnahan, 2010. "Monopolization and the Fading Dominant Firm," Chapters, in: Abel M. Mateus & Teresa Moreira (ed.), Competition Law and Economics, chapter 17, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  10. Timothy F. Bresnahan, 2003. "The mechanisms of information technology's contribution to economic growth," Chapters, in: Jean-Philippe Touffut (ed.), Institutions, Innovation and Growth, chapter 5, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  11. Timothy F. Bresnahan, 2002. "Prospects for an Information-Technology-Led Productivity Surge," NBER Chapters, in: Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 2, pages 135-162, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  12. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Robert J. Gordon, 1996. "Introduction to "The Economics of New Goods"," NBER Chapters, in: The Economics of New Goods, pages 1-26, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  13. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Paul Milgrom & Jonathan Paul, 1992. "The Real Output of the Stock Exchange," NBER Chapters, in: Output Measurement in the Service Sectors, pages 195-216, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  14. Bresnahan, Timothy F., 1989. "Empirical studies of industries with market power," Handbook of Industrial Organization, in: R. Schmalensee & R. Willig (ed.), Handbook of Industrial Organization, edition 1, volume 2, chapter 17, pages 1011-1057, Elsevier.

Books

  1. Bresnahan,Timothy & Gambardella,Alfonso (ed.), 2010. "Building High-Tech Clusters," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521143486.
  2. Bresnahan, Timothy F. & Gordon, Robert J. (ed.), 2008. "The Economics of New Goods," National Bureau of Economic Research Books, University of Chicago Press, number 9780226074184, December.
  3. Bresnahan,Timothy & Gambardella,Alfonso (ed.), 2004. "Building High-Tech Clusters," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521827225.
  4. Timothy F. Bresnahan & Robert J. Gordon, 1996. "The Economics of New Goods," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number bres96-1, March.

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  1. NEP-COM: Industrial Competition (3) 2004-08-31 2012-03-08 2014-06-02
  2. NEP-IND: Industrial Organization (3) 1999-06-08 2004-08-31 2012-03-08
  3. NEP-BEC: Business Economics (1) 2004-08-31
  4. NEP-HME: Heterodox Microeconomics (1) 2012-03-08
  5. NEP-ICT: Information and Communication Technologies (1) 2016-07-02
  6. NEP-INO: Innovation (1) 2004-08-31
  7. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 1999-06-08
  8. NEP-LAW: Law and Economics (1) 2004-08-31
  9. NEP-NET: Network Economics (1) 2004-10-30
  10. NEP-PAY: Payment Systems and Financial Technology (1) 2016-07-02
  11. NEP-TID: Technology and Industrial Dynamics (1) 2016-07-02

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