He has also authored papers on repeated games, reputation effects, and behavioral economics.
in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1978, when he went on to obtain his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After completing his Ph.D. in just three years, he began his assistant professorship at the University of California, Berkeley in 1981.
In 1993, Fudenberg accepted a faculty position in the Economics department of his alma mater, Harvard University.
Fudenberg received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990 and became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.