Jean-François Mertens
Belgian game theorist (1946–2012) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jean-François Mertens (11 March 1946 – 17 July 2012) was a Belgian game theorist and mathematical economist.[1]
Jean-François Mertens | |
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Born | (1946-03-11)11 March 1946 Antwerp, Belgium |
Died | 17 July 2012(2012-07-17) (aged 66)[1] |
Alma mater | Université Catholique de Louvain Docteur ès Sciences 1970 |
Known for | Solution concept Stable equilibrium Hierarchy of beliefs Stochastic games Repeated games with incomplete information Shapley value |
Children | Diane Mertens |
Awards | Econometric Society Fellow von Neumann Lecturer of Game Theory Society |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Game theory Mathematical economics |
Institutions | Université Catholique de Louvain Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) |
Doctoral advisor | José Paris Jacques Neveu |
Doctoral students | Françoise Forges |
Mertens contributed to economic theory in regards to order-book of market games, cooperative games, noncooperative games, repeated games, epistemic models of strategic behavior, and refinements of Nash equilibrium (see solution concept). In cooperative game theory he contributed to the solution concepts called the core and the Shapley value.
Regarding repeated games and stochastic games, Mertens 1982[2] and 1986[3] survey articles, and his 1994[4] survey co-authored with Sylvain Sorin and Shmuel Zamir, are compendiums of results on this topic, including his own contributions. Mertens also made contributions to probability theory[5] and published articles on elementary topology.[6][7]