Eric Maskin

Eric Maskin
Maskin in 2009
Born (1950-12-12) December 12, 1950 (age 73)
New York City, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (BA, MA, PhD)
Academic career
FieldGame theory
InstitutionHarvard University
Institute for Advanced Study
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
University of Cambridge
Doctoral
advisor
Kenneth Arrow
Doctoral
students
Abhijit Banerjee
Drew Fudenberg[1]
Robert W. Vishny[2]
Mathias Dewatripont
David S. Scharfstein
Jean Tirole
ContributionsMechanism design
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize (2007)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Academic background
ThesisSocial choice on restricted domains (1976)

Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist and mathematician. He was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory".[3] He is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard University.

Until 2011, he was the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, and a visiting lecturer with the rank of professor at Princeton University.[4]

  1. ^ Fudenberg, Drew (1981), Strategic behavior in economic rivalry. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  2. ^ Vishny, Robert W. (1985). Informational aspects of securities markets (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
  3. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007" (Press release). Nobel Foundation. October 15, 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
  4. ^ Economics professor wins Nobel – The Daily Princetonian Archived October 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine