Dr.
Mailath: Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences
Dr.
George J. Mailath received this appointment as
the Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences following
a five-year term as the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn
Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences, Dean Preston
announced.
After
earning a B.Ec. with first class honors from the Australian
National University, he completed both his M.A. and Ph.D.
at Princeton University.
Dr.
Mailath, who serves as the undergraduate chair in economics,
joined the department in 1985 and was promoted to full
professor ten years later. In addition to his faculty
service at Penn, he has held visiting appointments at
universities around the world including the Australian
National University, London School of Economics, Melbourne
University, NYU, Tel Aviv University, University of Bonn,
and Yale.
A
fellow of the prestigious Econometric Society, Dr. Mailath
specializes in microeconomic theory, game theory, and
mathematical economics. He was recently invited to share
his research at the 2003 annual meetings of the Society
for Economic Dynamics held in Paris. As plenary speaker,
Dr. Mailath delivered a presentation on Time Consistency,
Reputations, and the Importance of Perpetual Uncertainty:
Implications for Macroeconomics. To support his contributions
to economic science, Dr. Mailath has received three research
grants from the NSF, along with awards from Penn's Research
Foundation and the Fishman Davidson Center for the Study
of the Service Sector.
Dr.
Mailath has authored or coauthored 29 articles in refereed
publications, including the forthcoming "Imperfect Monitoring
and Impermanent Reputations" with Martin Cripps and Larry
Samuelson. His article "Investment and Concern for Relative
Position," (with Harold Cole and Andrew Postlewaite)
published in the Review of Economic Design, received
the 2001 Koç University Prize for the Best Paper of the
Year in Economic Design. In addition to serving as associate
editor of Econometrica, Dr. Mailath is on the
editorial boards of several leading economic journals.
This
chair was established through the generosity of Walter
and Leonore Annenberg. The Honorable Leonore Annenberg
is an emeritus trustee, as was the late Ambassador Annenberg,
who received Penn's Alumni Award of Merit in 1991. The
Annenbergs endowed many chairs in SAS and made countless
contributions to the University. They also founded the
Annenberg School for Communication at Penn in 1958.