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Avinash Dixit
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Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (born 1944 in Bombay) is an American economist.
Dixit is Sherrerd University Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His research interests include microeconomic theory, game theory, international trade, industrial organization, growth and development theories, public economics, political economy, and the new institutional economics. Also, Dixit's book on real options (co-authored by R. Pindyck) is considered a major contribution in financial economics. He was President of the Econometric Society in 2001, and a Vice- President of the American Economic Association in 2002. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.
He has written a new book, Lawlessness and economics, which is contribution to NIE.
He is the co-author of the books Games of Strategy,Thinking Strategically with Barry Nalebuff of the Yale School of Management, as well as Investment under Uncertainty with Robert Pindyck.
