Richard L. Schmalensee

Richard Lee "Dick" Schmalensee (born 1944) is the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the Department of Economics at MIT. He served as the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007. He was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 through 1991 and served 12 years as Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.

Richard L. Schmalensee
Richard Lee Schmalensee
Born	1944 Belleville, Illinois[1][better source needed]
Academic career
Institution	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Franklin M. Fisher
Doctoral students	Carl Shapiro[2][dead link‍]
Other notable students	Severin Borenstein
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Schmalensee received his S.B. and Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.

Bibliography

• David Sparks Evans; Richard Schmalensee (2005). Paying with Plastic: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-55058-1.
• David S. Evans; Richard Schmalensee (3 May 2016). Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms. Harvard Business Review Press. ISBN 978-1-63369-173-5.

References

1. NNDB profile on Richard L. Schmalensee
2. Consumer information, product quality, and seller reputation.

External links

• MIT faculty directory listing
• "Richard Schmalensee". JSTOR.