CDDRL

CDDRL friend and Jonathan B. Lovelace Professor of Economics John McMillan passed away on March 13, 2007 of complications caused by cancer. We are saddened by his loss and grateful for the brilliance and spirit he brought to his work and ours.

John McMillan is coordinator of the Program on Economic Performance at CDDRL; the the Jonathan B. Lovelace Professor of Economics; and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. His research focuses on economic reform, mechanism design, cross-country comparisons of market institutions, and entrepreneurship in developing and transition economies.

Before coming to Stanford in 1999, he served as an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario and then as a professor at the University of California-San Diego. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society; a research fellow at the William Davidson Institute of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London); a member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association; and a member of the New Zealand Association of Economists. He is director of Market Design Inc. He is on the editorial board of several academic journals, including the Journal of Economic Literature; Contemporary Economic Policy; the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies; Contemporary Economic Policy; and Risk, Decision and Policy.

His research reports include "Business Deals Rely on Trust, Not Law" (2000). His publications include Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002); "Interfirm Relations and Informal Credit in Vietnam," in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (1999); and Markets in Transition, Advances in Economics and Econometrics (1997).

He received BSc and MCom degrees, with honors, from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and a PhD from the University of New South Wales (Australia).