Tomas Sjöström

Tomas Sjöström (born March 19, 1962) is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. His current research interests include theories of conflict and behavioral economics.

Life
He graduated from Stockholm University with a bachelor's degree in business economics in 1985. He then continued to study economics at the University of Rochester, earning his Ph.D. in 1991.

Sjöström worked at Harvard University from 1991 to 1998. From 1998 to 2004, he served as Professor of Economics at the Pennsylvania State University before taking on the role of Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and served on the selection committee for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences from 2007 to 2018.

Selected publications

 * “Decentralization and Collusion” with S. Baliga, Journal of Economic Theory (1998) 83:196-232.