Professor Vincent Crawford

Vincent Crawford FBA is Drummond Professor of Political Economy Emeritus in the Department of Economics, following his service as Drummond Professor from 2010 to 2020. He received an AB Summa cum Laude from Princeton University in 1972 and a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. From 1976-2009 he worked in the Department of Economics at the University of California San Diego, where he is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Princeton, ANU, CNRS (France), University of Canterbury (New Zealand), Berkeley, and National University of Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and Academia Europea. He received several grants from the US National Science Foundation and an Advanced grant from the European Research Council. He has been co-editor of the American Economic Review, editor of Games and Economic Behavior, and associate editor of Econometrica and several other journals. His research focus has been game-theoretic microeconomics, with emphases on bargaining and arbitration, strategic communication, matching markets, learning, coordination, and most recently behavioural and experimental game theory and behavioural economics more generally.