Vincent Crawford

Vincent Paul Crawford FBA (born 6 April 1950) is an American economist was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford from 2010 to 2020 and held various academic and research positions at the University of California, San Diego from 1976 to 2020.

Vincent P. Crawford
Born (1950-04-06) 6 April 1950
Springfield, Ohio
CitizenshipUnited States
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisEssays in Economic Theory
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics
Sub-disciplineGame theory, experimental economics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
University of California, San Diego
Websiteeconweb.ucsd.edu/~v2crawford/

Early life and education

Crawford majored in economics at Princeton University, graduating Summa cum laude in 1972. He went on to further study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his PhD in Economics in 1976.[1]

Career

Crawford began his academic career at the UCSD as assistant professor in 1976 and was promoted to full professor in 1985. As he took up his second professorship at All Souls College, Oxford in 2010, he was appointed Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at UCSD.

The Econometric Society conferred fellowship to him in 1990, American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected him to be one of their fellows in 2003, and the British Academy and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory followed suit in 2011 and 2012, respectively.[2][3][4][5]

He has served an editor and coeditor of various economic journals, such as Econometrica from 2004 to 2007,[6] the American Economic Review from 2005 to 2009[7] and Games and Economic Behaviour.[8]

Research

His research focuses on behavioural game theory, specifically bargaining and communication, experimental economics and matching. His work on strategic information transmission has been seminal in the field of strategic communication in economic games.[2][3][9] The Economist predicted him to be the next Nobel Prize laureate in 2011.[10]

Selected works
  • Crawford, Vincent, and Joel Sobel. "Strategic Information Transmission", Econometrica 50 (November 1982), 1431-1451
  • Crawford, Vincent, and Nagore Iriberri. "Fatal Attraction: Salience, Naivete, and Sophistication in Experimental Hide-and-Seek Games", American Economic Review 97 (December 2007), 1731-1750
  • Crawford, Vincent (1983). Essays in Economic Theory (Routledge Revivals). Oxford: Routledge. ISBN 978-1138858671.

References
  1. Crawford, Vincent. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  2. "Vincent Paul Crawford". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  3. "Professor Vincent Crawford FBA". The British Academy.
  4. "Fellows | The Econometric Society". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  5. "Economic Theory Fellows". SAET. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  6. "Past Associate Editors | The Econometric Society". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  7. "Editors of the American Economic Review". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  8. Games and Economic Behavior Editorial Board.
  9. Eminent economists II : their life and work philosophies. Szenberg, Michael,, Ramrattan, Lall, 1951-. New York. ISBN 978-1-107-04053-3. OCLC 853313603.CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. "Runners and riders". The Economist. October 4, 2011. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
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