Margaret Meyer

I completed my PhD at Stanford Business School in 1986 and have spent my career at Nuffield College, Oxford University, with sabbatical visits to MIT, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford. My early work was in industrial organization, on competition in supply functions. Subsequently, I have focused on three areas: i) organizational economics ---influence costs and firm boundaries; performance comparisons and dynamic incentives; career design; gaming and strategic opacity in incentive provision; ii) information economics---information acquisition; cheap talk; observational learning; and iii) stochastic orderings, especially orderings of dependence in multivariate distributions.  I have derived great pleasure from mentoring generations of students and postdocs and from my continuing role as a founding organizer of the European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory at Gerzensee, which since the early 1990s has brought together young European economists and leading international researchers. In addition to my roles on the EEA Council in the 1990s and 2020s, I have served on the Council of the Econometric Society (2009-14) and as an At-Large Member of its Executive Committee (2012-14).