Andrew Postlewaite

Andrew Postlewaite is a distinguished economist at the University of Pennsylvania who has publishes broadly in the most prestigious economics journals.  His work spans several fields in economics, including the areas of social norms, game theory, incentives, market structure, public policy and regulation. 

He graduated with a BA in economics from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1965 and completed a PhD in applied mathematics from Northwestern in 1974.  Illinois Wesleyan awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2001. 

After several years at the University of Illinois, Andrew Postlewaite accepted a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania.  He was the Chairperson of the Department of Economics at Pennsylvania from 1982-87 and from 1991-96.  He also has had a large number of visiting appointments at prestigious institutions, including Princeton, Stanford and the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics in Louvain, Belgium.

He was honored by the University of Pennsylvania when he received the Harry P. Kamen Professorship in 2003.  Since 2005, Andrew Postlewaite has been a Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Here is a link to Andrew Postlewaite’s homepage:
http://www.econ.upenn.edu/~apostlew/