Drew Fudenberg

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

Career, teaching and research

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

As an Assistant Professor Fudenberg went after completing his studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1985. In 1987, he returned as professor back to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1992 served as a visiting lecturer at the University of Toulouse, he followed a year later a call from Harvard University.

The focus of the work Fudenbergs particular is game theory. He has dealt in his scientific publications on various aspects and thereby covered areas such as the equilibrium theory, learning in games, and evolutionary game theory. He has applied game-theoretic approaches to the analysis of Industrial Organization negotiated solutions and contract theory. To further develop the folk theorem, he was instrumental in particular in the 1990s in collaboration with Eric S. Maskin at.

1996 to 2000 was editor of the journal Econometrica Fudenberg of the Econometric Society, after he had already been involved in the editorial since 1985. From 1998 he also sat in the Council he Company, three years later he gave the Office.

Works

The following list are published by Fudenberg books again, he has also written numerous journal articles and working papers.

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