Susan Athey
Stanford University
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Primary Section: 54, Economic Sciences Membership Type:
Member
(elected 2012)
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Biosketch
Susan Athey is Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She received her bachelor's degree from Duke University and her Ph.D. from Stanford, and she holds an honorary doctorate from Duke University. She previously taught at the economics departments at MIT, Stanford and Harvard. She is also a consulting researcher at Microsoft Research and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
In 2007, Professor Athey received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded by the American Economic Association every other year to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008. In 2000, she received the Elaine Bennett research award, given every other year to an outstanding young woman in any field of economics. She is a member of the President's Committee on the National Medal of Science. She served as an elected member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association; as an elected member of the Council of the Econometric Society, and an elected member of the Council of the Game Theory Society.
She has served as co-editor of American Economic Journals: Microeconomics and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and as an associate editor of several leading journals.
Research Interests
Susan Athey's current research focuses on the economics of the internet, marketplace design, auction theory, the statistical analysis of auction data, and the intersection of computer science and economics. Recently she has been working on theoretical and empirical studies of internet search, online advertising and the news media. She advises governments and businesses on the design of auction-based marketplaces.
