Philip J. Reny

Philip J. Reny
Born	1958 Ottawa, Canada
Nationality	dual US/Canada
Academic career
Field	Economics
Institution	University of Chicago
Alma mater	Princeton University, University of Western Ontario, Carleton University
Doctoral students	Vasiliki Skreta
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Philip J. Reny is the Hugo F. Sonnenschein Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and in the college at the University of Chicago. Reny is known as an economic theorist and perhaps is best known for the textbook Advanced microeconomic theory written jointly with Geoffrey A. Jehle. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2015), and was the Head Editor of Journal of Political Economy. In 1996, Reny became a fellow of the Econometric Society. He has also been a charter member of the Game Theory Society since 1999, and a fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory starting in 2012.

Selected publications

• Jehle, G. A., & Reny, P. J. (2001). Advanced microeconomic theory. Boston: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-273-73191-7
• Reny, Philip J. (1992) "Rationality in extensive-form games." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 103–118.
• Reny, Philip J. (1999) "On the existence of pure and mixed strategy Nash equilibria in discontinuous games." Econometrica 67.5 1029–1056.

External links

• University of Chicago: Philip J. Reny's homepage
• "Philip J. Reny". EconPapers.
• Philip J. Reny publications indexed by Google Scholar
• "Philip Reny". JSTOR.