Vincent P. Crawford (born 1950) is an American economist. He is a senior research fellow at the

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, following his tenure as

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from 2010 to 2020. He is also research professor at the

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Early life and education

Crawford majored in economics at

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, graduating ''

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'' in 1972. He went on to further study at the

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and received his PhD in Economics in 1976. His thesis was supervised by

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Career

Crawford began his academic career at the

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as assistant professor in 1976 and was promoted to full professor in 1985. As he took up his second professorship at Oxford University and the associated fellowship at

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in 2010, he was appointed Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at UCSD. The

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conferred fellowship to him in 1990,

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elected him fellow in 2003, and the

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and the

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followed suit in 2011 and 2012, respectively. He gave the 2017 Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture. He has served as an editor and coeditor of various economic journals, such as ''

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'' from 2004 to 2007, the ''American Economic Review'' from 2005 to 2009 and ''Games and Economic Behaviour''.

Research

Crawford's research focuses on behavioural game theory, specifically bargaining and communication, experimental economics and matching. His work on strategic information transmission has been seminal in the field of strategic communication in economic games, with his 1982 paper (co-authored with

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) establishing the concept of

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in game theory. ''

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'' predicted him to be the next

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in 2011.

Selected works

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References

External links

Official website

Profile
on the website of All Souls College

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