Anna Vladimirovna Bogomolnaia ( Russian: Анна Владимировна Богомольная) is a Russian economist specializing in microeconomics and game theory. She is a professor in economics at the Adam Smith Business School of the University of Glasgow, [1], and was until 2022 chief research fellow of the International Laboratory for Game Theory and Decision Making at the Higher School of Economics in Russia. [2] [3]
After earning a master's degree in mathematics at Saint Petersburg State University in 1989, [4] Bogomolnaia went to the Autonomous University of Barcelona for doctoral studies in economics. [1] Her 1998 dissertation, Medians and Lotteries: Strategy-Proof Social Choice Rules for Restricted Domains, was supervised by Salvador Barberà . [5]
After earning her doctorate, she worked at the University of Nottingham, [1] became an assistant professor at Southern Methodist University, [6] and earned tenure at Rice University in 2005. [7] She took her positions at the University of Glasgow and the Higher School of Economics in 2013 and 2015 respectively. [1] [4]
Bogomolnaia is known for her work on coalitions and on randomized solutions to assignment problems. With Hervé Moulin she formulated the probabilistic-serial procedure for solving the fair random assignment problem. [8] With Matthew O. Jackson she introduced the concept of hedonic games to model coalition-forming in multiplayer games. [9]