Margaret A. Meyer

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Margaret Ann (Meg) Meyer FBA (born 9 June 1959) [1] is an American economist whose research interests include microeconomics, organizational economics, and contract theory. She works in England as an Official Fellow in economics in Nuffield College, Oxford.

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Education and career

After graduating from the Dalton School, Meyer went to Harvard University, where she earned Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude honors as the valedictorian of her class in 1981. She earned a master's degree in economics at the University of Cambridge in 1982, and completed her Ph.D. in 1986 at Stanford University. [2] [1]

Prior to becoming a fellow of Nuffield in 1988, Meyer was a junior research fellow in economics in St John's College, Oxford, from 1985 to 1988. [3] [1]

Recognition

Meyer has been a Member of the Council of the European Economic Association (1994-1997), of the (U.K.) Royal Economic Society (1995-1999) and of the Econometric Society (2009–14). [1] She has been a Member of the Organizing Committee of European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (Gerzensee, Switzerland) since 1993. [1] Meyer became a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1998, [4] and a Fellow of the European Economic Association in 2004. [1] She was elected to the British Academy in 2019, [3] and elected a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in 2019. [1]

Personal

Meyer's husband is Oxford economist Paul Klemperer. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Curriculum vitae (PDF), September 2020, retrieved 2020-10-29
  2. 1 2 "Dr. Margaret Meyer, Economist, Weds", The New York Times , 10 July 1989
  3. 1 2 Congratulations to Meg Meyer on her election as a Fellow of the British Academy, Oxford Economics, 5 August 2019; Dr Margaret Meyer FBA, British Academy, retrieved 2019-12-12
  4. Fellows of the Econometric Society 1950 to 2018 , retrieved 2019-12-12