Roger Myerson

Roger Myerson
Myerson in 2008
Born (1951-03-29) March 29, 1951 (age 73)
Academic career
InstitutionUniversity of Chicago
Northwestern University
FieldGame theory
Alma materHarvard University (AB, SM, PhD)
Doctoral
advisor
Kenneth Arrow
Doctoral
students
Scott E. Page
Leonard Wantchekon
ContributionsMechanism design
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2007)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Academic background
ThesisA 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.[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]

  1. ^ "Roger Myerson Pearson Institute Faculty Profile".
  2. ^ "Prof. Myerson's University of Chicago Department of Economics Profile".
  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. ^ "APS Announces 2019 Class of New Members".

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