Jacob Goeree
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Short Biography
Jacob Goeree heads the Chair for Organizational Design at the University of Zurich. He is the current President-Elect of the Economic Science Association after having served as a Vice President from 2006-2010. He is an Editor of Experimental Economics and Associate Editor at the Journal of Economic Theory and Games and Economic Behavior. He was awarded a prize for best undergraduate thesis (``Location, Location, Location,’’ published in the Journal of Economic Theory), a prize for most successful alumnus of the Tinbergen Institute, and he received a Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is the Principal Investigator of an ERC Advanced Investigator grant and of two Swiss National Science Foundation grants. He is a Fellow of CEPR and CESifo. His research interests include mechanism design, including practical auction and market design, political science, social networks and social learning, bounded rationality, and experimental economics. He has published in top general-interest journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Political Science Review.
