Eric Maskin | |
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 Maskin in 2009 | |
| Born | December 12, 1950 New York City, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Game theory |
| Institution | Harvard 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 |
| Contributions | Mechanism design |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize (2007) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Social 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]
- ^ Fudenberg, Drew (1981), Strategic behavior in economic rivalry. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- ^ Vishny, Robert W. (1985). Informational aspects of securities markets (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
- ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007" (Press release). Nobel Foundation. October 15, 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- ^ Economics professor wins Nobel – The Daily Princetonian Archived October 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine