Beth E. Allen

Beth Elaine Allen is an American professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota and has served as the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in that department. At the University of Minnesota, she teaches Advanced Game Theory and Advanced Topics in Economics. She graduated with a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. She specializes in competition, economic theory, economic trends, economics of information and uncertainty, game theory, microeconomic theory, microeconomics, and price-setting. She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, and was one of very few women to have received tenure in a theoretical field of economics in a top university department by 1993. Her research focuses on the economics of information and uncertainty.

She was president of the Midwest Economics Association in 1999–2000.

2017 Charges

In 2017, she was charged with tax evasion by the State of Minnesota for failure to file income tax returns and pay the full amount of her state income taxes for several years. She pled guilty to these charges and was sentenced to two years of probation and a year of jail time.

Selected works

Allen, Beth (1991). "Choosing R & D Projects: An Informational Approach." The American Economic Review . 81(2): 257–261. Allen, Beth. "The future of microeconomic theory." Journal of Economic Perspectives 14, no. 1 (2000): 143–150.