Dirk Bergemann

Dirk Bergemann is Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics at Yale University. He has secondary appointments as Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Professor of Finance in the School of Management. He is the Founding Director of the Center for Algorithm, Data and Market Design at Yale University. He joined Yale in 1995 as an assistant professor, having previously served as a faculty member at Princeton University. Before that, he received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994.

He is currently a Co-Editor of American Economic Review: Insights, and is a Member of the Executive Committee of the Econometric Society. Dirk Bergemann was Chair of the Department of Economics from 2013-2019 and Co-Editor of Econometrica from 2014-2018. He is member of Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society.

Professor Bergemann’s research focuses in the areas of game theory, contract theory, venture capital, and market design. His most recent work is in the area of dynamic mechanism design and dynamic pricing, robust mechanism design, and information design. His research has been supported by grants from institutions including the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.