Margaret Meyer

Professor Margaret Meyer is a leading microeconomics theorist renowned for foundational contributions to organisational economics and industrial organization. As a founding member of ESSET (European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory at Gerzensee), she has shaped one of Europe's premier economic theory forums since the early 1990s, fostering generations of young economists through high-impact scholarly exchange.

Her research spans strategic communication, personnel selection mechanisms, incentive design, and information structures in organizations. Meyer's work integrates game-theoretic modeling with institutional analysis to examine how information asymmetries, strategic behavior, and organizational design affect economic outcomes. Key contributions include analyzing the persistent effects of selection luck, strategic opacity in incentive systems, and robustness properties of communication equilibria.

Recent publications reveal consistent focus on information economics applications, particularly examining how strategic actors manipulate selection processes and incentive structures. Her work demonstrates methodological rigor through sophisticated game-theoretic frameworks addressing real-world organizational challenges in labor markets and decision-making systems.

Scientific recognition includes:

• Role Models in Economics Award by European Economic Association (2023)

Through ESSET leadership, Meyer has significantly influenced career trajectories of emerging economists while advancing theoretical frontiers in microeconomic organization theory.