Susan Skeath

Susan Skeath (van Mulbregt) is a Professor of Economics at Wellesley College. She joined the faculty in 1989, was granted tenure in 1996, and served as Chair of the Economics Department from 2000–2004. At Wellesley, Professor Skeath teaches courses in microeconomics, game theory, international trade, and industrial organization.

Professor Skeath’s research focuses on the trade policy implications of the existence of imperfectly competitive international markets and on the role of strategic behavior in such markets. She is also the co-author, with Avinash Dixit at Princeton University, of an introductory level game theory textbook, Games of Strategy (W.W. Norton, 1999; 2nd edition, 2004).

Professor Skeath is a member of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Economic Association and serves on the editorial boards of the Eastern Economic Journal and the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development. She held positions as a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in 1992–93 and at the Department of Economics, Boston University, in the fall of 1999. She was also a Commerce Divisional Visiting Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, in the spring of 2000.

Professor Skeath received a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Haverford College (1985) where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1984. She also has an M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1989) in Economics from Princeton University.

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