Dilip Abreu is an Indian-American economist who is currently Professor of Economics at New York University. Abreu is an Elected Fellow of the

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and the

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Early life and education

Abreu grew up in South Mumbai, and attended St Mary's School. He earned an undergraduate degree in economics and statistics from

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at the

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in 1975, and a master's degree in economics and econometrics from Delhi School of Economics at

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in 1978. He earned another master's degree in economics and mathematical economics from Balliol College at

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in 1980. He enrolled in the doctoral program in economics at

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under the supervision of

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, finishing in three years. For his PhD thesis, titled ''Repeated Games with Discounting: A General Theory and an Application to Oligopoly'', Abreu studied repeated interactions among self-interested strategic agents.

Career

Abreu joined a post-doctoral fellowship at the

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in 1983. His first appointment was as an assistant professor at

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in 1984. He joined the economics department at

as a full professor in 1990. He had a brief stint at

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from 1995 to 1997, whereupon he returned to Princeton as the Edward E. Matthews, Class of 1953, Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics. He has been a faculty at Princeton University for 25 years in total.

Selected publications

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