Leigh S. Tesfatsion | |
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| Citizenship | U.S. |
| Academic career | |
| Institution | Iowa State University University of Southern California |
| Alma mater | University of Minnesota Carleton College |
| Doctoral advisor | Clifford Hildreth Leonid Hurwicz |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Leigh Tesfatsion is a computational economist who taught at Iowa State University. She received her doctorate at the University of Minnesota, and taught at the University of Southern California before moving to Iowa State. She is known for promoting agent-based models as an alternative to rational expectations general equilibrium models for studying markets, finance, and macroeconomic phenomena. Her works are widely cited in the literature on the subject.[1]