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Dr. Waldfogel:  Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor

Joel Waldfogel

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.

 

 


  Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 14, November 25, 2003

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