John P. Conley

I completed my undergraduate work at the University of Chicago and received my Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in economics in 1990. From 1989 until 2002 I taught in the Economics Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I moved to Vanderbilt University in 2002 as a Professor of Economics. I am currently on sabbatical visiting Microsoft Research. I am the co-founder and first president of the Association for Public Economic Theory (APET), the co-founder and editor of the Journal of Public Economic Theory (JPET) and the open-access letters journal, Economics Bulletin (EB). My earlier research was primarily in public economic theory, general equilibrium, and cooperative and non-cooperative game theory. More recently I have working on innovation, scientific communication, the science of science, and the economics of information and communications technology.