Education
He graduated from Stanford in 1995. Having already returned to Australia to take up a lectureship in the School of Economics, University of New South Wales.
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Joshua Gans
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Until 2011, he was an economics professor at Melbourne Business School in Australia. His research focuses on competition policy and intellectual property protection. He is the author of several textbooks and policy books, as well as numerous articles in economics journals.
He operates two blogs - one on economic policy, and another on economics and parenting.
Born in 1968, he spent the first 11 years of his life in Sydney (attending Vaucluse Public School before moving to Brisbane in 1979. His supervisors were Paul Milgrom, Kenneth J. Arrow and Avner Grief.
He moved to Melbourne Business School in 1996 as an Associate Professor and became a full Professor in 2000. This is an award given every two years to the best economist working in Australia, who is aged under 40.
This grant will be used to study the contributions and distributions to the knowledge of economics.
Gans will be working with Professor Fiona Murray at the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Presently, Gans teaches at Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada.
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He attended the private boys Brisbane Grammar School before receiving a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) and the University Medal from the University of Queensland, and later attended Stanford University for his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics. In 2007, Gans received the inaugural young economist award from the Economic Society of Australia. In 2011, Gans received a grant of $976,000 (United States) from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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