Joshua Gans
Joshua Gans is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management and chief Economist of the university's Creative Destruction Lab. In addition, he is a senior consultant with Charles River Associates in Toronto.
Before 2011, he was the Foundation Professor of Management (Information Economics) at the University of Melbourne Business School, and before that, he was at the University of New South Wales School of Economics.
In 2011, Joshua was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research (New England). In 2012, he was appointed as a Research Associate of the NBER in the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program. He is also a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a distinguished fellow of the Luohan Academy, a senior academic fellow at the e61 Institute, a research fellow at FinTech@Cornell Initiative, and a research affiliate at MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy.
He holds a PhD from Stanford University and an honors degree in economics from the University of Queensland.
Joshua Gans
Dec 09, 2009
The GAO report raises concerns about card association the level of interchange fees (that acquirers pay issuers for credit card transactions processed) but also about other card association rules such as the ‘no surcharge rule.’ That rule prevents a merchant who accepts card transactions from charging a ‘point of sale’ premium to consumers who use ... Interchange fees and other rules
Joshua Gans
Dec 08, 2009
What happens when you take a key price in an industry and cut it in half? For normal markets economists would expect that this would have a dramatic effect on quantity. That, however, was not the experience in Australia when the Reserve Bank of Australian (RBA) used new powers in 2003 to move Visa and ... What happened in Australia?
