Alvin E. Roth

Alvin Roth (2012)

Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 18, 1951 in New York City ) is an American economist and was Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard University and since mid-2012 at Stanford University. He researches game theory , experimental economics and market structures. In 2012, he and Lloyd S. Shapley were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics .

Life

Roth made his Ph.D. in Operations Research in 1974 at Stanford University and then worked at the University of Illinois until 1982 . He became the first professor of economics in 1983 at the University of Pittsburgh . He held this chair, which was supplemented by a business management chair in 1985, when he moved to Harvard and finally to Stanford in 2012. The economist held visiting professorships in Haifa in 1986, Tel Aviv in 1995 and Jerusalem in 1995/1996.

with John H. Kagel : Handbook of Experimental Economics . Princeton University Press, 1997.
The Shapley Value: Essays in Honor of Lloyd S. Shapley . Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Game-Theoretic Models of Bargaining . Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 3rd edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1 , pp. 961-962

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