Roger B. Myerson

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Roger Bruce Myerson

Roger Bruce Myerson (born March 29, 1951 in Boston ) is an American economist . He is the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago . Roger Myerson in 2007 together with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin Nobel Prize in Economics, Nobel Prize in Economics awarded.

Life

Roger Myerson received his Bachelor of Arts with the distinction summa cum laude and his Masters in Applied Mathematics in 1973 from Harvard University . In the same subject, also at Harvard, he received his Ph.D. with the dissertation on A Theory of Cooperative Games . He then worked as a lecturer at Northwestern University until 1979 . At the same time, he was a guest at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld from 1978 to 1979 . In 1979, he was appointed Associate Professor at Northwestern. In 1982 he was appointed full professor at the university. He was visiting professor of economics from 1985 to 1986 and again from 2000 to 2001 at the University of Chicago .

Awards

Roger B. Myerson, together with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin , was awarded the Prize for Economics, Nobel Prize for Economics , donated by the Swedish Reichsbank in memory of Alfred Nobel in 2007 for their work on the design of economic mechanisms . Hurwicz is considered to be the founder of the theory; Maskin and Myerson, however, had developed it significantly.

On October 14, 2013, Roger B. Myerson was awarded the Oskar Morgenstern Medal by the University of Vienna.

Myerson is also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1993), the National Academy of Sciences (since 2009) and the American Philosophical Society (since 2019).

Fonts

  • Game theory. Analysis of Conflict. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1991, ISBN 0-674-34115-5 .
  • Probability models for economic decisions. Thomson et al., Belmont CA et al. 2005, ISBN 0-534-42381-7 .

Web links

Commons : Roger Myerson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/myerson/research/rbmvita.pdf
  2. ^ Oskar Morgenstern Medal - Prize winners . Retrieved September 10, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Myerson, Roger B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Myerson, Roger Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts, USA