Dirk Bergemann

Dirk Bergemann
Occupations
  • Professor
  • economist
TitleDouglass & Marion Campbell Professor of Economics and Computer Science
Academic background
Education
Doctoral advisorGeorge Joseph Mailath
Academic work
Discipline
InstitutionsYale University
Notable ideasBayes correlated equilibrium

Dirk Bergemann is the Douglass & Marion Campbell Professor of Economics and Computer Science at Yale University. He received his Vordiplom in economics at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1989, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and 1993, respectively.

Bergemann's research is concerned with game theory, contract theory and mechanism design. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the German National Science Foundation. Bergemann is the foreign editor for the Review of Economic Studies, and the associate editor of several other publications, including American Economic Journal, Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, and the Journal of Economic Theory. He is a fellow of the European Economic Association.