Avinash Dixit, the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics, has been elected president-elect of the American Economic Association.
He will begin his two-year term in January, serving as president-elect
for a year and then president. In 2002, Dixit was vice president of the
association, which has 18,000 members from academic institutions,
business and industry, government and nonprofit organizations. He also
was president of the Econometric Society in 2001.
A Princeton faculty member since 1981, Dixit currently directs
undergraduate studies in the Department of Economics. This year, he won
the Richard E. Quandt Teaching Prize for his outstanding work with
undergraduates.
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
was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and
the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.
Dixit has held 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.
