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​Welcome to my website! I am a microeconomic theorist working primarily on mechanism design.

 

BIO

Vasiliki Skreta is the Leroy G. Denman Regents Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and a Research Fellow at both CEPR and NBER. Her research spans microeconomic theory, with a focus on mechanism design, game theory, and information economics. Her main contributions concern mechanism design with limited commitment and mechanism design by an informed principal. Her work has appeared in leading journals including Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, and the Review of Economic Studies.

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Professor Skreta is the inaugural recipient of the Arrow Prize, awarded by the Econometric Society in 2024 for the best paper in economic theory published in Econometrica over the preceding four years. Her research has been supported by grants from the European Research Council and the National Science Foundation.

 

She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.A. from the Athens University of Economics and Business. Before joining UT Austin, she held faculty positions at NYU's Stern School of Business, UCLA, and the University of Minnesota. She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. She currently serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and has previously served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory and Games and Economic Behavior among others.

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A special European Economic Review  issue​ I co-edited with Martin Crips and Antonio Guarino in memory of our dear friend, colleague and talented theorist Konrad Mierendorff

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“Privatizations: Auction and Market design during a Crisis,"  in  "Beyond Austerity" MIT Press, edited by Costas Meghir, Christopher Pissarides, Dimitri Vayanos, Nikos Vettas.

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