Financial Theory

About The Professor

John Geanakoplos is James Tobin Professor of Economics at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1980. He has been Director of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, co-Director of Hellenic Studies Program at Yale, chairman of the science steering committee at the Santa Fe Institute and Managing Director of Fixed Income Research at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Prizes he received include the Samuelson Prize (1999), and the Bodossaki Prize in economics (1994). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1999) and was visiting professor at MSRI in the UC Berkeley, Churchill College, Cambridge, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. He was one of the founding partners of Ellington Capital Management, where he remains a partner. One of his current research topics is the leverage cycle.

Contact
E-mail: john.geanakoplos@yale.edu
Office Address: 30 Hillhouse Ave., Rm. 21
Office: (203) 432-3397
Fax: (203) 432-6167
Office Hours: Wed., 4:00-6:00 pm
Mailing Address:
Department of Economics
Yale University
Box 208281
New Haven, CT 06520-8281
Research Affiliations: Cowles Foundation
Research Interests: Economic theory
Teaching Fields: Mathematical economics; Microeconomic theory
Administrative Assistant: 
Adeline Bass
adeline.bass@yale.edu
28 Hillhouse Ave., Rm. 101
(203) 432-3576

John Geanakoplos
John Geanakoplos
Name: John Geanakoplos
Institution: Yale University
Website: http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/faculty/geanakoplos.htm