Beth E. Allen

Beth Elaine Allen is a professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota and has served as the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in that department.[1] At the University of Minnesota, she teaches Advanced Game Theory and Advanced Topics in Economics.[1] She graduated with a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978.[1] She specializes in competition, economic theory, economic trends, economics of information and uncertainty, game theory, microeconomic theory, microeconomics, and price-setting.[1] She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society[2] and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory,[3] and was one of very few women to have received tenure in a theoretical field of economics in a top university department by 1993.[4] Her research focuses on the economics of information and uncertainty.[5]

Beth Elaine Allen
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
AwardsElected Fellow, Econometric Society, 2011
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota
Doctoral advisorGérard Debreu

She was president of the Midwest Economics Association in 1999–2000.[6]

2017 Charges

In 2017, she was charged with tax evasion by the State of Minnesota for failure to file income tax returns and pay the full amount of her state income taxes for several years.[7][8] She pled guilty to these charges and was sentenced to probation and a year of jail time. She was also required to pay the taxes she owned and $11,000 in restitution to the state of Minnesota.[9]

Selected Works
  • Allen, Beth, and Martin Hellwig (1986). "Bertrand-Edgeworth oligopoly in large markets". The Review of Economic Studies. 53 (2): 175–204. doi:10.2307/2297646.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  • Allen, Beth (1981). "Generic existence of completely revealing equilibria for economies with uncertainty when prices convey information". Econometrica. 49 (5): 1173–1199. doi:10.2307/1912749.
  • Allen, Beth (1990). "Information as an economic commodity". The American Economic Review. 80 (2): 268–273.
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References
  1. "Beth E Allen : College of Liberal Arts : U of M". apps.cla.umn.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  2. "Econometric Society Fellows, October 2016 | The Econometric Society". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 2017-06-23.
  3. "Economic Theory Fellows - Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory". saet.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  4. Uchitelle, Louis (1993-01-11). "In Economics, a Subtle Exclusion". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  5. "NSF Award Search: Award#9309854 - Market Games with Asymmetric Information". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  6. "Past Presidents and Secretary-Treasurers | MEA, The Midwest Economics Association". mea.grinnell.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  7. "Charges: University of Minnesota economics professor didn't pay state income taxes for 12 years". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  8. "UMN economics professor accused of dodging taxes for nearly 12 years". mndaily.com - The Minnesota Daily. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  9. "U of M professor sentenced for tax evasion". Hennepin County, Minnesota. Retrieved 2018-10-17.


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