Marina Halac

Marina Halac is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics at Yale University. She studies game theory, contract theory, and mechanism design. Halac’s research explores how incentives are shaped by contracting constraints and the information environment. She develops dynamic models to study employment relationships, innovation, and reputation, with recent work on externalities in multi-agent contracts, such as price dispersion and pay discrimination. Her research also examines how to design policy rules in the presence of political bias.

Halac is coeditor of Econometric and was previously coeditor of Theoretical Economics. She is affiliated with the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics and previously served as its Director. She is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and the Academia Nacional de Ciencias Económicas, Argentina. She has been awarded several prizes for her teaching and her research, including the Elaine Bennett Research Prize by the American Economic Association.

She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. She was on the faculty of Columbia University and the University of Warwick before joining Yale in 2018, and has been a visiting faculty at the University of Chicago.