MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
European Studies Council

Dirk Bergemann

Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics and Professor of Computer Science
European Studies Council
Research Interests:

Algorithms, Data, and Market DesignDynamic ContractsEconometricsGame TheoryIndustrial OrganizationLearning and Information Acquisition in MarketsMicroeconomics

Dirk Bergemann is Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics at Yale University. He has secondary appointments as Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Professor of Finance in the School of Management.

He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. He joined Yale in 1995 as an assistant professor, having previously served as a faculty member at Princeton University.

He is member of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society.

Dirk currently is Co-Editor of American Economic Review: Insights, and is a Member of the Executive Committee of the Econometric Society. Dirk Bergemann was Chair of the Department of Economics from 2013-2019 and Co-Editor of Econometrica from 2014-2018.

His research is in the area of game theory, contract theory, venture capital, and market design. His most recent work is in the area of auction and information design. His research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the Omidyar Network and Google.

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