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Jeffrey Ely

Charles E. and Emma Morrison Professor; Director, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences Program

PhD: University of California, Berkeley, 1996
Curriculum Vitae

Jeff Ely is a microeconomic theorist with interests ranging from pure game theory to applied microeconomics to behavioral and experimental economics. His work includes contributions to the foundations of game theory under incomplete information, repeated games, and mechanism design, the evolution of preferences, and torture. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He was a founding co-editor of the open access journal Theoretical Economics.