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*[[University of Delhi]] (MA 1978)
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'''Dilip Abreu''' is an Indian-American economist who is currently Professor of Economics at New York University.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dilip Abreu|url=http://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/dilip-abreu.html/|website=New York University |accessdate=December 9, 2017}}</ref> Abreu is an Elected Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] and the [[Econometric Society]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Dilip J. Abreu|url=https://bfi.uchicago.edu/people/dilip-j-abreu|website=University of Chicago|accessdate=20 May 2018}}</ref>

==Early life and education==

Abreu grew up in South Mumbai, and attended St Mary's School.<ref name="Mint">{{cite web|last1=Lamba|first1=Rohit|title=Dilip José Abreu: an elegant and creative economist|url=https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/ciOJofdiwUz61e7CgaztDM/Dilip-Jos-Abreu-an-elegant-and-creative-economist.html|website=Mint|accessdate=19 May 2018|date=3 May 2018}}</ref> He earned an undergraduate degree in economics and statistics from [[Elphinstone College]] at the [[University of Mumbai]] in 1975, and a master's degree in economics and econometrics from [[Delhi School of Economics]] at [[University of Delhi]] in 1978. He earned another master's degree in economics and mathematical economics from [[Balliol College]] at [[University of Oxford]] in 1980.<ref name="Princeton Profile">{{cite web|title=Dilip J. Abreu|url=https://dof.princeton.edu/about/clerk-faculty/emeritus/dilip-j-abreu|website=Princeton University|accessdate=19 May 2018}}</ref><ref name="CV">{{cite web|title=Curirculum Vitae|url=http://www.princeton.edu/~dabreu/CV.pdf|website=Princeton University|accessdate=19 May 2018}}</ref> He enrolled in the doctoral program in economics at [[Princeton University]] under the supervision of [[Hugo F. Sonnenschein|Hugo Sonnenschein]], finishing in three years.<ref name="Mint"/> For his PhD thesis, titled ''Repeated Games with Discounting: A General Theory and an Application to Oligopoly'', Abreu studied repeated interactions among self-interested strategic agents.<ref name="Princeton Profile"/>

==Career==

Abreu joined a post-doctoral fellowship at the [[University of Minnesota]] in 1983. His first appointment was as an assistant professor at [[Harvard University]] in 1984. He joined the economics department at [[Princeton University]] as a full professor in 1990. He had a brief stint at [[Yale University]] from 1995 to 1997, whereupon he returned to Princeton as the Edward E. Matthews, Class of 1953, Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics.<ref name="CV"/> He has been a faculty at Princeton University for 25 years in total.{{fact|date=June 2022}}

== Selected publications ==
* {{cite journal |doi=10.2307/1913097|jstor=1913097|title=The Structure of Nash Equilibrium in Repeated Games with Finite Automata|year=1988|last1=Abreu|first1=Dilip|last2=Rubinstein|first2=Ariel|journal=Econometrica|volume=56|issue=6|page=1259}}
* {{cite journal |doi=10.2307/2938286|jstor=2938286|title=Information and Timing in Repeated Partnerships|year=1991|last1=Abreu|first1=Dilip|last2=Milgrom|first2=Paul|last3=Pearce|first3=David|journal=Econometrica|volume=59|issue=6|page=1713|url=http://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/pub/d08/d0875.pdf}}

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://scholar.princeton.edu/dabreu/home] Dilip J. Abreu at Princeton University.
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