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Avinash Dixit

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Avinash Dixit (born 1944 in Bombay) is an American economist.

Dixit is Sherrerd University Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His research interests include microeconomic theory, game theory, international trade, industrial organization, growth and development theories, public economics, political economy, and the new institutional economics. He was President of the Econometric Society in 2001, and a Vice- President of the American Economic Association in 2002. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.

He is the co-author of the books Games of Strategy and, with Barry Nalebuff, Thinking Strategically.