Roger Myerson | |
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 Myerson in 2008 | |
| Born | March 29, 1951 Boston, Massachusetts, US |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Game theory |
| Institution | University of Chicago Northwestern University |
| 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) |
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 of the University of Chicago.[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 Pearson Institute Faculty Profile".
- ^ "Prof. Myerson's University of Chicago Department of Economics Profile".
- ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007" (Press release). Nobel Foundation. October 15, 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- ^ "APS Announces 2019 Class of New Members".