Information Economics

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John Chuang

Professor
Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy

Recent Publications

Information Economics news

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Why Surveillance Leads to Government Corruption
Once a pervasive surveillance infrastructure is in place, a government will always have an incentive to abuse that power, according to new research.
Hal R. Varian
I School’s First Endowed Chair Will Be the Hal R. Varian Chair in Information Economics

The School of Information is delighted to announce the creation of its first endowed chair, the Hal R. Varian Chair in Information Economics, thanks to a generous gift from Hal R. Varian, the founding dean of the I School and now the Chief Economist at Google, with matching funds from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Joshua Blumenstock
Joshua Blumenstock Wins Braunstein Prize for Best Student Research Paper
Blumenstock’s research measures how person-to-person financial transfers via mobile phone affect the risk and income volatility of the agriculturally-based economies of rural Rwanda.
Josh Blumenstock
New Grant Supports Josh Blumenstock's Research on "Mobile Money" and the 2008 Rwandan Earthquake
Blumenstock is analyzing a database of every interpersonal monetary transfer over Rwanda's primary telecom network from 2005-2009, including over 1 billion transfers and phone calls by 1 million individuals.