July 1998

 

CURRICULUM  VITA

Jeremy I. Bulow

Personal                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date of Birth

Citizenship

Business Address         

 

 

 

January 30, 1954

U.S.A.

Graduate School of Business

Stanford University

Stanford, California 94305-5015

(415) 723-2160

Education

B.A., M.A., Economics, Yale University, May 1975

Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 1979

Academic Positions

Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (at Stanford since 1979)

Visiting Professor, Yale School of Management and Economics Department, 1997-98

Visiting Research Fellow, World Bank, April-June, 1991

Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1986–1987

Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, University of Chicago, January–June 1985

National Fellow, Hoover Institution, 1982–1983

Fellowships

Fellow of the Econometric Society

Research Associate, N.B.E.R., 1984-present

Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1984–1986

Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, 1985

Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1979–1984

Hoover National Fellow, 1982–1983

NSF Fellow, 1975–1978

Microeconomic Theory

"Durable Goods Monopolists." Journal of Political Economy 90, no. 2, (April 1982):314-32. www.jstor.org

"A Note on the Effect of Cost Changes on Prices" (with Paul Pfleiderer).  Journal of Political Economy 91,  no. 1,
     (February 1983): 182–185. www.jstor.org

"Holding Idle Capacity to Deter Entry" (with John Geanakoplos and Paul Klemperer) Economic Journal, (March
     1985), pp. 178–82.

"Multimarket Oligopoly," (with John Geanakoplos and Paul Klemperer).  Journal of Political Economy, 93,  no. 3
     (June 1985), pp. 488–511. www.jstor.org

"An Economic Theory of Planned Obsolescence," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 101, no. 4, (November 1986):
     729–49. www.jstor.org

"The Simple Economics of Optimal Auctions" (with John Roberts) Journal of Political Economy, 97, No. 5
     (October, 1989):1060-1090. www.jstor.org

"Rational Frenzies and Crashes" (with Paul D. Klemperer), Journal of Political Economy, 102, No. 1
    (February 1994):1-23.

"Auctions vs. Negotiations" (with Paul D. Klemperer), American Economic Review, 86, No. 1 (March 1996):
     180-194.

"The Generalized War of Attrition" (with Paul D. Klemperer), American Economic Review, forthcoming.
     [.pdf format]

"Toeholds and Takeovers" (with Ming Huang and Paul D. Klemperer), Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming
     forthcoming. [pdf format]

 

International Debt

"A Constant Recontracting Model of Sovereign Debt" (with Kenneth Rogoff). Journal of PoliticalEconomy, 97,
     no. 1, (February 1989):155-78. www.jstor.org

"Sovereign Debt: Is to Forgive to Forget?" (with Kenneth Rogoff). American Economic Review, 79, no. 1,(March
     1989):43-50. www.jstor.org

"Multilateral Negotiations for Rescheduling Developing Country Debt: A Bargaining Theoretic Framework" (with
 Kenneth Rogoff). International Monetary Fund Staff Papers, 35 (December 1988), pp. 644-57; reprinted in
Jacob Frenkel (ed.) Analytical Issues in Debt (International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C., 1989).

"The Buyback Boondoggle" (with Kenneth Rogoff). Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2 (1988),pp. 675-98.

"Empirical Evidence on Implicit Government Guarantees of Bank Foreign Loan Exposure:Comment".
     Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series, Vol. 30, Spring 1989, pp.163-66.

"Cleaning Up Third World Debt Without Getting Taken to the Cleaners" (with Kenneth Rogoff).Journal of
     Economic Perspectives
, Vol. 4 No. 1, Winter 1990, pp.31-42. www.jstor.org

"Sovereign Debt Repurchases: No Cure for Overhang" (with Kenneth Rogoff). Quarterly Journal of Economics,
     Vol. CVI, Issue 4, November 1991, pp. 1219-35. www.jstor.org

"Official Creditor Seniority and Burden-Sharing in the former Soviet Bloc" (with Kenneth Rogoff and Alfonso
     Bevilaqua), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1992 No. 1, pp. 195-222.

Comment on "The Debt Crisis: A Post Mortem", NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 7, 1992 , pp.105-109.

"Debt and Default: Corporate vs. Sovereign", New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, P. Newman,
     Murray Milgate, and John Eatwell, eds. (New York: Stockton Press), 1992. pp. 579-82.

 

Corporate Finance and Pensions

"Inflation Accounting and Nonfinancial Corporate Profits: Physical Assets," (with J. B. Shoven). Brookings Papers
     on Economic Activity
3 (1975): 557–608.

"Inflation Accounting and Nonfinancial Corporate Profits: Financial Assets and Liabilities," (with J. B. Shoven). Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1 (1976): 15–57.

"The Definition of Taxable Business Income," (with E. Cary Brown). In Joseph A. Pechman (ed.), Comprehensive Income Taxation. Washington, D. C. : Brookings Institution, 1977.

"The Bankruptcy Decision," (with J. B. Shoven). Bell Journal of Economics 9, no. 2 (Autumn 1978): 437–56.

"What are Corporate Pension Liabilities?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, (August 1982): 435–52. www.jstor.org

"The Effect of Inflation on the Private Pension System." In R. W. Hall (ed.), Inflation: Causes and Effects. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1982.

"Inflation, Corporate Profits, and the Rate of Return to Capital" (with J. B. Shoven ). In R. W. Hall (ed.), Inflation: Causes and Effects. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

"Who Owns the Assets in a Defined Benefit Pension Plan?" (with Myron Scholes). In Z. Bodie and J. Shoven (eds.),
     Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1984.

"Economic Implications of ERISA" (with Myron Scholes and Peter Menell). In Z. Bodie and J. Shoven (eds.), Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1984.

"The Taxation of Risky Assets" (with Lawrence Summers). Journal of Political Economy, 92, no. 1, (February 1984): 20–39. www.jstor.org

"The Relationship between Wages and Benefits" (with Wayne Landsman). In D. Wise (ed.), Pensions, Labor, and Individual Choice, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1985.

"How Does the Market Value Unfunded Pension Liabilities?" (with Randall Mork and Lawrence Summers). In Z. Bodie, J. Shoven, and D. Wise (eds.), Issues in Pension Economics, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1986.

"Distinguishing Debt from Equity in the Junk Bond Era" (with Lawrence H. Summers and Victoria P. Summers). In J. Shoven and J. Waldfogel (eds.), Debt Taxes and Corporate Restructuring, Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution, 1990.

 

Miscellaneous Topics

"Rates of Return by Industrial Sector in the United States, 1948–76: Discussion" (with Ben S. Bernanke).
     American Economic Review 70, no. 2 (May 1980): 338–39. www.jstor.org

"Tax Reform and Income Redistribution: Issues and Alternatives," (with W. Brainard; J. B. Shoven; and J. Tobin).
     In Economic Theory and Policy. James Tobin's papers, Vol. 3 M.I.T. Press, 1982.

"Retroactive Money" (with H. M. Polemarchakis). Economica 56, (August 1983, 301–310.

"A Theory of Dual Labor Markets with Application to Industrial Policy, Discrimination, and Keynesian
    Unemployment" (with Lawrence Summers) Journal of Labor Economics, 4, no. 3, pt. 1, (July, 1986),
    pp. 376–414.

"The Tobacco Deal" (with Paul D. Klemperer).  Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Microeconomics) 1998
     (forthcoming).  [word 6.0/95].

"The Donation Booth: Mandating Donor Anonymity to Disrupt the Market for Political Influence" (with Ian Ayres).   Stanford Law Review, vol. 50 no. 3 (February 1998), pp. 837-91.

 

Working Papers

"Prices and the Winner's Curse" with (Paul D. Klemperer), [.pdf format].

 

Recent Op Ed Ariticles

"If You Smoke, Florida Wants to Tax You", with (Daniel P. Kessler), The Wall Street Journal, November 26, 1997.

"Robbing Smokers to Pay Lawyers" (with Daniel P. Kessler), The Wall Street Journal, April 7, 1998.

"A Sweet Deal for a Tobacco Executive", The Wall Street Journal, May 13, 1998.

"The Donation Booth" (with Ian Ayres), The Boston Review, December-January 1998.  pp. 26-27.