Drew Fudenberg

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Drew Fudenberg (born March 2, 1957 in New York ) is an American economist and university professor .

Life

Fudenberg studied mathematics at Harvard College , which he left in 1978 as an Artium Baccalaureus in applied mathematics. Three years later he graduated as a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

After completing his studies, Fudenberg went to the University of California, Berkeley as an assistant professor , where he was promoted to associate professor in 1985 . In 1984 he received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ). In 1987 he returned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a full professor. Visiting professor at the University of Toulouse in 1992 , he followed a call from Harvard University a year later . Since 2016 he has been Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

The focus of Fudenberg's work is particularly game theory . He has dealt with various aspects in his scientific publications, covering areas such as equilibrium theory, learning in games and evolutionary game theory . He has applied game theory approaches to the analysis of industrial organization , negotiation solutions and contract theory. He made a decisive contribution to the further development of the folk theorem , especially in the 1990s, in collaboration with Eric S. Maskin .

From 1996 to 2000, Fudenberg was editor of the Econometrica magazine of the Econometric Society , after having been on the editorial board since 1985. From 1998 he also sat on the Society's Council, three years later he gave up the office. In 1998 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 2014 to the National Academy of Sciences .

Works

The following list shows books published by Fudenberg, and he has also written numerous magazine articles and working papers.

  • with Jean Tirole : Game Theory. 1991
  • with David K. Levine : Theory of Learning in Games. 1998
  • with David K. Levine: A Long-Run Collaboration on Long-Run Games. 2008

literature

  • Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 3rd edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1 , pp. 401-402

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected. ( Memento of August 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Press release of the National Academy of Sciences (nasonline.org) of April 29, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Fudenberg, Drew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH new York