Alvaro Sandroni
E.D. Howard Professor of Political Economy, Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences at Kellogg School of Management
Biography
Kellogg School of Management
Alvaro Sandroni is the E.D. Howard Professor in Political Economy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1996. He received his PhD in economics in 1996 from the University of Pennsylvania, his PhD in mathematics in 1994 from the Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (Brazil) and his B.Sc. in mathematics in 1986 from the Pontifica Universidade Catolica economics (Brazil). Sandroni has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Rochester.
Sandroni has received grants from the Institute of Aging, the Bi-National Science Foundation and Bergmann Memorial Research as well as four National Science Foundation grants for behavioral science research. He served as a panelist for the National Science Foundation and was invited Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. He has also received the 2003 Stanley Reiter Best Paper Award, the University of Pennsylvania’s William Polk Carey Prize in Economics for Best Ph. D. Dissertation and the Hiram C. Haney Fellowship Award in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sandroni is on the editorial boards of Economic Theory and the International Journal of Game Theory.
Sandroni’s research is in the areas of behavioral sciences, strategic forecasting, economic theory, game theory, political science, and general equilibrium theory. He has published numerous journal articles in economics, political science and game theory journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Economic Review, Econometrica, Annals of Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Mathematics of Operations Research, Theoretical Economics, International Journal of Game Theory, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, and Journal of Economic Theory.
Sandroni is the author (along with Peter Klibanoff, Boaz Moselle and Brett Saraniti) of Managerial Statistics: A Case-Based Approach (2005, Cengage Learning). He has also published his work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Research Interests
Behavioral Science; Strategic Forecasting; Political Science; Economic Theory; Game Theory; Law and Philosophy.
Education
- PhD, 1996, Economics, University of Pennsylvania
- PhD, 1994, Mathematics, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil
- BSc, 1986, Mathematics, Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Brazil
Academic Positions
- E.D. Howard Chair of Political Economy, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2009-present
- Professor, Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2005-2009
- Mechthild Esser Nemmers Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2003-2007
- Mechthild Esser Nemmers Associate Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2001-2002
- Associate Professor, Economics, University of Rochester, 2000-2001
- Associate Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1999-2001
- Assistant Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1996-1998
Awards
- Winner of the Case Center Awards for Kirat Housing, Case Center Society
- 2018 Winner of the Case Centre Awards for Kirat Housing (with Farhad Fatakia), Case Center Society
- Research Award, Euromed Management, one year
- Stanley Reiter Best Paper Award, Kellogg School of Management, 2003
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