Professor Beth Allen received her Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1978. She teaches in the areas of Economic Theory, Information and Uncertainty, and Game Theory. Professor Allen's current research includes economics of information and uncertainty, game theory, engineering design theory and manufacturing.
Office: 4-183 Hanson Hall Telephone: (612) 626-8213 E-mail: assist@econ.umn.edu
Selected publications include: "Choosing R & D Projects: An Informational Approach," American Economic Review 81, no. 2 (May 1991): 257-261. "Information as an Economic Commodity," American Economic Review 80, no. 2 (May 1990): 268-273. "Price-Setting Firms and the Oligopolistic Foundations of Perfect Competition" (with Martin Hellwig), American Economic Review 76, no. 2 (May 1986): 387-392. "The Future of Microeconomic Theory," Journal of Economic Perspectives 14, no. 1 (Winter 2000): 143-150. "Generic Existence of Completely Revealing Equilibria for Economies with Uncertainty when Prices Convey Information," Econometrica 49, no. 5 (September 1981): 1173-1199.