Avinash Dixit, the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics, has been named a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's National Academy for the
Humanities and Social Sciences. Corresponding fellows, which
currently number 300, are elected in recognition of their international
distinction as scholars.
Dixit's research interests have included microeconomic theory, game
theory, international trade, industrial organization, growth and
development theories, public economics, political economy and the new
institutional economics. He is the author of several books and of
numerous articles in professional journals and collective volumes. He
served as president of the Econometric Society in 2001 and as vice
president of the American Economic Association in 2002. He was elected
to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the National
Academy of Sciences in 2005.
A Princeton faculty member since 1981, Dixit previously was an
assistant professor at the University of California-Berkeley, a fellow
of Balliol College, Oxford, and a professor at the University of
Warwick. He also has held visiting professorships at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and visiting scholar positions at the
International Monetary Fund, the London School of Economics, the
Institute for International Economic Studies (Stockholm) and the
Russell Sage Foundation.
