Dunaway Lecture

Susan Athey

Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Chief Economist, Microsoft Corporation
Consulting Researcher, Microsoft Research New England

Wednesday, April 5, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
109 South Kedzie Hall, MSU

Title and Abstract (To be posted at a later date)

Susan Athey is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Born in 1970, she received her bachelor's degree at 20 from Duke University, her Ph.D. from Stanford at 24, and was voted tenure at M.I.T. and Stanford before her 30th birthday. After teaching at MIT for six years and Stanford for five years, she moved to Harvard in 2006.

Her current research focuses on marketplace design, auction theory, and the statistical analysis of auction data. Recently she has been working on theoretical and empirical studies of internet search, online advertising and the news media. She advises governments and businesses on the design of auction-based marketplaces, consulting for Microsoft Corporation in the role of chief economist since 2007, focusing on online services.

Professor Athey is an expert in a broad range of economic fields including industrial organization, econometrics, and microeconomic theory and has used game theory to examine firm strategy when firms have private information. Previous research include mathematical methods and tools for theoretical modeling, auctions, industrial organization, econometric identification, and organizational design. More

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