Andrea Prat (born 1967) is an Italian economist. He is the Richard Paul Richman Professor of Business and Professor of Economics at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. He first studied economics at the University of Turin and then obtained his PhD in 1997 at Stanford University under the supervision of

Kenneth Arrow Kenneth Joseph Arrow (23 August 1921 – 21 February 2017) was an American economist, mathematician, writer, and political theorist. He was the joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with John Hicks in 1972. In economics ...

. Andrea Prat has also taught at the

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and at

Tilburg University Tilburg University is a public research university specializing in the social and behavioral sciences, economics, law, business sciences, theology and humanities, located in Tilburg in the southern part of the Netherlands. Tilburg University h ...

. He served as chairman and

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of the

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. He is an associate editor of Theoretical Economics. Andrea Prat is a Fellow of the

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and of the

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.Econometric Society:

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External links

Columbia University web page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Prat, Andrea 1967 births Living people Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Econometric Society 20th-century Italian economists 21st-century Italian economists Stanford University alumni University of Turin alumni Columbia University faculty