Dirk Bergemann

Dirk Bergemann
Education
Occupations
  • Professor
  • economist
TitleDouglass & Marion Campbell Professor of Economics and Computer Science
Academic career
Field
InstitutionYale University
Doctoral
advisor		George Joseph Mailath[1]
ContributionsBayes correlated equilibrium

Dirk Bergemann is the Douglass & Marion Campbell Professor of Economics and Computer Science at Yale University.[2] He received his Vordiplom in economics at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1989, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and 1993, respectively.

Bergemann's research is concerned with game theory, contract theory and mechanism design. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the German National Science Foundation. Bergemann is the foreign editor for the Review of Economic Studies, and the associate editor of several other publications, including American Economic Journal, Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, and the Journal of Economic Theory.

Bergemann has made important contributions to the theory of mechanism design.[3] In his work with Stephen Morris on robust mechanism design, they relaxed common knowledge assumptions which were prevalent in the early mechanism design literature.[4] By formulating the mechanism design problem more precisely, they showed that simple mechanisms arise endogenously. This provided a theoretical justification for the relatively simple auction designs employed in practice, when compared to the complexity of optimal auctions suggested by the early literature.[5]

Bergemann has also pioneered work with consumer behavior around dynamic pricing structures.[6] He is a fellow of the European Economic Association.[7]

  1. ^ Mailath's CV
  2. ^ "Dirk Bergemann | Department of Economics". Economics.yale.edu. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  3. ^ "The Class of 2006? - Who Columbia Needs to Get to Break the Top 5". Nymag.com. 2005-10-10. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  4. ^ Bergemann, Dirk; Morris, Stephen (2012). Robust Mechanism Design. World Scientific Series in Economic Theory. Vol. 2. doi:10.1142/8318. ISBN 978-981-4374-58-3.
  5. ^ "Welcome to the website of the Econometric Society an International Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics". Archived from the original on 2014-07-26. Retrieved 2014-07-19.
  6. ^ Bilton, Nick (8 January 2012). "Disruptions: Taxi Supply and Demand, Priced by the Mile". Bits.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  7. ^ "Fellows | EEA". www.eeassoc.org. Retrieved 2021-02-26.