Roger Myerson
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Roger Bruce Myerson (born March 29, 1951) is an American economist and professor at the University of Chicago. He holds the title of the David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts in the Harris School of Public Policy, the Griffin Department of Economics, and the college.[1] Previously, he held the title The Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics.[2] In 2007, he was the winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin for "having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory."[3] He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.[4]
Roger Myerson | |
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Born | (1951-03-29) March 29, 1951 (age 73) Boston, Massachusetts, US |
Academic career | |
Institution | University of Chicago Northwestern University |
Field | Game theory |
Alma mater | Harvard University (AB, SM, PhD) |
Doctoral advisor | Kenneth Arrow |
Doctoral students | Scott E. Page Leonard Wantchekon |
Contributions | Mechanism design |
Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2007) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Academic background | |
Thesis | A theory of cooperative games (1976) |