Nicolas Vieille

Nicolas Vieille is a French mathematician and economist who specializes in game theory and probability theory. He is Professor of Economics at the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris (HEC) in Paris .

Scientific career

Vieille studied at the École normal supérieure and received his doctorate in 1992 under Sylvain Sorin at the University of Paris VI (Contribution à la théorie des jeux répétés). He was at the École polytechnique and became a professor at the HEC in 2001.

He is editor of Mathematics of Operations Research and co-editor and editor of the scientific journals Games and Economic Behavior , International Journal of Game Theory and Annales d'Economie et de Statistiques .

research

Much research interest lies in stochastic game theory. Among other things, Vieille proved the existence of states of equilibrium in stochastic games with two people.

Awards and honors

2003: Frederick W. Lanchester Prize

Fonts

Two-Player Stochastic Games I: A Reduction, II: The Case of Recursive Games, Israel J. of Mathematics, Volume 119, 2000, pp. 55-91, 93-126
Small Perturbations and Stochastic Games, Israel J. of Mathematics, Vol. 119, 2000, 127-142
Stochastic games: Recent results, in: Handbook of Game Theory, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science 2002, pp. 1833-1850.
with Eilon Solan: Computing uniformly optimal strategies in two-player stochastic games, Economic Theory, Volume 42, 2010, pp. 237-253

Web links

Homepage

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Vieille, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[1] Nicolas Vieille in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)

[2] HEC Professor Nicholas Veille awarded the Lanchaster Prize. hec.fr ( HEC Paris ), accessed December 8, 2015 .