Dr. Waldfogel: Joel
S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor
Dr.
Joel Waldfogel, professor of business
and public policy at the Wharton
School, has been designated the new Joel S. Ehrenkranz
Family Professor as of July 1, 2003. He has been
the Associate Vice Dean of Wharton's Doctoral Programs
since 2000. Prior to coming to Penn as an associate professor
in 1997, Dr. Waldfogel was an associate professor of
economics at Yale University. His distinctions include being
awarded The Alfred P. Sloan Dissertation Fellowship,
Stanford University, 1989-90, and serving as a Research
Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
since 2002.
He earned his B.A.
in economics at Brandeis University in 1984, and his
Ph.D., also in economics, from Stanford University in
1990.
Dr.
Waldfogel's
research areas include industrial organization, law and
economics, public economics, and economics of media industries.
His current projects are distributional effects in product
markets, particularly media markets, local media markets,
race, localism, and political participation; information
intermediaries and competition in online markets. Dr.
Waldfogel recently authored: Preference Externalities: An
Empirical Study of Whom Benefits Whom in Differentiated
Product Markets, in the RAND Journal of
Economics (forthcoming).
The
Ehrenkranz Professorship was established in 1991 to
reward a promising scholar
and distinguished member of Wharton's faculty who is
already making an impact in his or her field. Mr. Joel
Ehrenkranz, W '56, WG '57, is a member of Wharton's Graduate
Executive Board. |