Tuck School of Business
7 Bridgman Rd.
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 Hanover, NH 03755 (603) 643-8582 (603) 646-2079
E-mail: robert.hansen@dartmouth.edu
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Ph.D., Economics, 1984
Dissertation: "Theory and Evidence on the Consequences of Alternative Auction Rules"
Fields in Economics of Uncertainty and Information; Econometrics, Industrial Organization
M.A., Economics, 1982
Recipient of Four-Year Chancellor's Fellowship
NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
B.S., Economics and Mathematics, 1979
Summa Cum Laude
Outstanding Economics Student, 1979
EMPLOYMENT
NORMAN W. MARTIN 1925 PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Appointed to Chair in July, 2000
Courses Taught: Managerial Economics; Securities Markets and Investment Banking; Business and Public Policy; Investments; Environmental Economics; Governance and Control of the Modern Corporation; Managerial Applications of Game Theory; Credit Crisis Seminar; Energy Economics; Health Economics and Policy.
ACTING DIRECTOR, DARTMOUTH ENERGY INITIATIVE (2016 to 2017)
Dartmouth College
SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN (2000 - 2015)
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
FACULTY DIRECTOR, ALLWIN INITIATIVE FOR CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP/CENTER FOR BUSINESS AND SOCIETY (2004 -2015)
FACULTY CO-DIRECTOR, MASTER OF HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SCIENCE, 20112015 (one of two co-founding faculty directors)
FACULTY DIRECTOR/CO-DIRECTOR, TUCK BUSINESS BRIDGE PROGRAM, various years.
ASSOCIATE DEAN OF THE FACULTY (July 1998-June 2000)
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
ASSOCIATE DEAN (July 1995-June 1998)
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Responsible for MBA program, Tuck Business Bridge Program, and LEAD program.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (1986 - 1994; on leave 1988-1990)
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
MANAGER; CONSULTANT (June 1988 - June 1990)
The LEK Partnership, Boston, MA
Initiated, managed and presented projects in mergers and acquisitions, business unit strategy, and economic support for litigation.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (July 1983 - July 1986)
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
PUBLICATIONS
"Empirical Testing of Auction Theory," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1985.
"Auctions With Contingent Payments," American Economic Review, September 1985.
"Sealed-Bid Versus Open Auctions: The Evidence," Economic Inquiry, January 1986.
"A Model of Intra-Brand Competition and Related Pricing Policies for Manufacturers," Information Economics and Policy, June 1986.
"A Theory for the Choice of Exchange Medium in Mergers and Acquisitions," Journal of Business, January 1987.
"Evolution in Economic Games," jointly with William Samuelson, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1988.
"Auctions With Endogenous Quantity," Rand Journal of Economics, Spring 1988.
"The Winner's Curse and Public Information in Common Value Auctions: Comment," jointly with John R. Lott, Jr., American Economic Review, March 1991.
"An Auction - Theoretic Analysis of Corporate Auctioneer's Liability Regimes," jointly with Randall Thomas, Wisconsin Law Review, 1992 number 4.
"Auctioning Class Action and Derivative Lawsuits: A Critical Analysis," jointly with Randall Thomas, Northwestern Law Review, Winter 1993.
“Auctions in Finance,” in Handbook of Modern Finance, 1992.
"Regulating Indoor Air Quality: The Economist's View," jointly with John R. Lott, Jr., EPA Journal, October-December 1993.
“Profiting from Induced Changes in Competitors’ Market Values: The Case of Entry and Entry Deterrence,” jointly with John R. Lott, Jr., Journal of Industrial Economics, September 1995.
“Externalities and Corporate Objectives in a World with Diversified Owner/Shareholders,” jointly with John R. Lott, Jr., Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, March 1996.
“Auctions in Bankruptcy: Further Analysis and Practical Guidance,” jointly with Randall Thomas, International Review of Law and Economics, June 1998.
“The Efficiency of Sharing Liability for Hazardous Waste: The Effect of Uncertainty over Damages,” jointly with Randall Thomas, International Review of Law and Economics, March 1999.
"Auctions of Companies," Economic Inquiry, Janurary 2001.
"Megafirms," North Carolina Law Review, December 2001, with Randall Thomas and Stewart Scwab.
“Auctions in Corporate Finance,” joint with Sudipto Dasgupta, forthcoming, Handbook of Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance, B. Espen Eckbo, editor, 2006.
“Advances in Pricing Strategies and Tactics,” with Praveen Kopalle, Oxford Handbook of Managerial Economics, Thomas and Shugart eds., 2013
Working papers/Projects
“Hospital Performance and Ownership Structure: A Reassessment of the Evidence,” joint with Anant K. Sundaram
“Hospital/Physician Integration and Hospital Ownership,” joint with Anant K. Sundaram.
“Pass-Through Pricing Auctions with Applications to Health Care Markets”
“Persistence of Performance in the US Hospital Industry”
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Participant, L & EC Law Institute for Economists, sponsored by the Law and Economics Center at Emory University, 1985
North American Editor, Managerial and Decision Economics, 1997-2000.
Member, American Economic Association and Western Economic Association
March, 2019
Reviewer, American Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Information Economics and Policy, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Research, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance, Group Decision and Negotiation.
SELECTED PRIVATE CONSULTING WORK/BOARD ACTIVITIES
Board member, Bonnie Clac, New Hampshire nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting low income individuals purchase new cars (2007-2012).
Board member, Dartmouth Regional Technology Center (2008-2012).
Board member, West Coast Magnetics (2015 – present).
Scientific Advisory Board, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management (2010-2016).
Rogers &Wells, shareholder litigation in takeover.
Skadden Arps, antitrust support for merger.
Skadden Arps, valuation of private LBO firm.
Federal Trade Commission, auction-based analysis of discount drug stores merger.
The LEK Partnership, finance-based work.
Member, Advisory Board, LEK Consulting (1998-2000).
Economic Analysis, LLC., antitrust support for franchise litigation.
PERSONAL
Born March 3, 1957 in Marquette, Michigan. Conversant in German.