Andrea Prat (born 1967) is an Italian economist. He is the Richard Paul Richman Professor of Business and professor of economics at

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. He first studied economics at the University of Turin and then obtained his PhD in 1997 at

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under the supervision of

Kenneth Arrow Kenneth Joseph Arrow (August 23, 1921 – February 21, 2017) was an American economist, mathematician and political theorist. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1957, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1972, along with ...

. Prat has also taught at the

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and at

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. He served as chairman and

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of the '' Review of Economic Studies'' and as an associate editor of '' Theoretical Economics''. He is the editor-in-chief of '' The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization''. Prat is a Fellow of the

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and of the

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. He is a corresponding fellow of the Accademia delle Scienze. In 2020, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Gallen.University of St Gallen: https://www.unisg.ch/en/university/about-us/history/honorary-doctorates/

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External links

Columbia University web page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Prat, Andrea 1967 births Living people Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Econometric Society 20th-century Italian economists 21st-century Italian economists Stanford University alumni University of Turin alumni Columbia University faculty