Oliver Williamson
Faculty profiles
Members of the Economics Department
Oliver E. Williamson
Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics, and Organization; Nobel Laureate 2009 (In Memoriam)
Fields
Economics of institutions, law & economics
Current Research
The lens of contract (private ordering), economics in real time
Current Status
Emeritus
PhD
Ph.D. Carnegie-Mellon University, 1963
Research Interests
Transaction cost economics, the governance of contractual relations, bureaucracy, antitrust and regulation