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Mark Gregory Duggan (born November 13, 1970) is the Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He also served as director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) for nine years, ending August 31, 2024.
In 2002, Steven Levitt and Mark Duggan published a paper using econometrics in order to suggest that corruption in sumo exists. [3] Popularized in Levitt's book Freakonomics, the study found that 70% of wrestlers with 7–7 records on the final day of the tournament (i.e., seven wins and seven losses, and one fight to go) won.
The Economist article quotes Mark Duggan of Stanford University as saying, “Once you qualify you have an incentive not to get better.” With all due respect to Duggan, I wish I could run again ...
George Shultz [1] was a key player in its inception. The current director of the institute is Mark Duggan; [2] past directors include John Shoven, Michael Boskin, Lawrence J. Lau, and James Sweeney. [citation needed]
The book showed how operationally meaningful theorems can be described with a small number of analogous methods, thus providing "a general theory of economic theories." It moved mathematics out of the appendices (as in John R. Hicks's Value and Capital ) and helped change how standard economic analysis across subjects could be done with the ...
Mark Duggan, economist, Professor of Economics at Stanford University, former director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research [279] Kathleen DuVal, historian, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [10]
The Alchian–Allen effect was described in 1964 by Armen Alchian and William R Allen in the book University Economics (now called Exchange and Production [1]).It states that when the prices of two substitute goods, such as high and low grades of the same product, are both increased by a fixed per-unit amount such as a transportation cost or a lump-sum tax, consumption will shift toward the ...
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance is the second non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and The New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner, released in early October 2009 in Europe and on October 20, 2009 in the United States. [1]