Nationality India, United States | Role Economist Name Avinash Dixit | |
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Born August 6, 1944 (age 79) ( 1944-08-06 ) Bombay, British India Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1968), University of Mumbai, University of Cambridge Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada Books Games of Strategy, The Art of Strategy, Investment under uncertainty, Thinking Strategically, Optimization in Economic | ||
Avinash dixit the achievements and future of game theory a user s perspective
Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (born August 6, 1944 in Bombay, India) is an Indian-American economist. He is currently John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Lingnan University (Hong Kong), senior research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and Sanjaya Lall Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford.
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- Avinash dixit the achievements and future of game theory a user s perspective
- Simon levin evolution and public goods avinash dixit using national pro social preferences
- Education
- Career
- Selected publications
- References
Simon levin evolution and public goods avinash dixit using national pro social preferences
Education
Dixit received a B.Sc. from Bombay University in 1963 in Mathematics and Physics, a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1965 in Mathematics (Corpus Christi College, First Class), and a Ph.D. in 1968 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Economics.
Career
Dixit has been the John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University since July 1989. He is also Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Lingnan University (Hong Kong), senior research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and senior visiting research fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford. He previously taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the University of California, Berkeley, at Balliol College, Oxford and at the University of Warwick. In 1994 Dixit received the first-ever CES Fellow Award from the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich. In January 2016, India announced it will confer the Padma Vibhushan - the second highest of India's civilian honors to Dr. Dixit.
Dixit has also held visiting scholar positions at the International Monetary Fund and the Russell Sage Foundation. He was President of the Econometric Society in 2001, and was Vice-President (2002) and President (2008) of the American Economic Association. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.
With Robert Pindyck he is author of “Investment Under Uncertainty” (Princeton University Press, 1994; ISBN 0691034109), the first textbook exclusively about the real options approach to investments, and described as “a born-classic” [1] in view of its importance to the theory.