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Alvin Roth | |
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 Alvin E. Roth in Stockholm 2012 | |
| Born | Alvin Eliot Roth December 18, 1951 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Columbia University (BS) Stanford University (PhD) |
| Children | Aaron Roth |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Game theory, market design, experimental economics |
| Institution | Stanford University Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert B. Wilson |
| Doctoral students | Muriel Niederle Georg Weizsäcker Parag Pathak[1] Fuhito Kojima |
| Contributions | Market design |
| Awards | Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (1990) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2012) Golden Goose Award (2013) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2013) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Topics in Cooperative Game Theory (1974) |
Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 18, 1951) is an American academic. He is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and the Gund professor of economics and business administration emeritus at Harvard University.[2] He was President of the American Economic Association in 2017.[3]
Roth has made significant contributions to the fields of game theory, market design and experimental economics, and is known for his emphasis on applying economic theory to solutions for "real-world" problems.[4][5]
In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design".[6]
- ^ Essays on real -life allocation problems
- ^ Al Roth's Game Theory, Experimental Economics, and Market Design Page (accessed 2013-27-04).
- ^ Past Presidents
- ^ Susan Adams, "Un-Freakonomics: A Harvard professor uses economics to save lives, assign doctors and get kids into the right high school." Forbes, August 9, 2010.
- ^ Leon Neyfakh, "The Matchmaker: The Harvard economist who stopped just studying the world and began trying to fix it", The Boston Globe, April 3, 2011.
- ^ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2012, Nobel Prize official site (accessed 2012-10-15).