
Professor Vincent Crawford
AB, PhD, FBA
Drummond Professor of Political Economy and Fellow since 2010
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Background
- Assistant Professor (to 1981); Associate Professor (to 1985), Professor (to 1997) and, finally, Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego. [Emeritus Professor from 2010] (from 1976 to 2009)
- Postgraduate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (from 1972 to 1976)
- Undergraduate, Princeton University (to 1972)
Research interests
- Economic theory
- Behavioural and experimental economics
Selected publications
- (with Joel Sobel), ‘Strategic Information Transmission,’ Econometrica 50 (1982), 1431–51
- (with Alexander S. Kelso, Jr.), ‘Job Matching, Coalition Formation, and Gross Substitutes,’ Econometrica 50 (1982), 1483–1504
- ‘Theory and Experiment in the Analysis of Strategic Interaction,’ in David Kreps and Ken Wallis, editors, Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Seventh World Congress, Vol. I, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 206–42
- (with Miguel Costa–Gomes), ‘Cognition and Behavior in Two–Person Guessing Games: An Experimental Study,’ American Economic Review 96 (2006), 1737–68
- (with Nagore Iriberri), ‘Level–k Auctions: Can Boundedly Rational Strategic Thinking Explain the Winner's Curse and Overbidding in Private–Value Auctions?,’ Econometrica 75 (2007), 1721–70
- (with Nagore Iriberri), ‘Fatal Attraction: Salience, Naivete, and Sophistication in Experimental Hide–and–Seek Games,’ American Economic Review 97 (2007), 1731–1750
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Other professional memberships and roles
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)
- Fellow, Econometric Society (from 1990)
- Guggenheim Fellow (from 1997 to 1998)
- Co-Editor, American Economic Review (from 2005 to 2009)
- Member, Board of Editors, American Economic Review (from 2009 to 2010)
- Associate Editor, Econometrica (from 2004 to 2007)
- Member, Editorial Board, Games and Economic Behavior (from 1988)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Theory (1986–96, 1998–2004)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (from 2001 to 2004)
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, New Zealand Economic Papers (from 2007)
- Member, American Economic Association Honors and Awards Committee (from 2008 to 2013)
- Member, US National Science Foundation Economics Advisory Panel (from 1996 to 1998)
- Member, First Council of the Game Theory Society (from 2001 to 2003)
- Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (from 1982 to 1983)
- Visiting Professor of Economics & Visiting Research Associate, Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University (from 1985 to 1986)
Research awards and grants
- Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation Grants (from 1979 to 1994)