Theodore Groves
Theodore Francis Groves, Jr. (* 1941 ) is an American economist from the University of California, San Diego . He is best known for his work on game theory .
Groves earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1964 and a Ph. D. in economics from Roy Radner at the University of California, Berkeley , in 1970 . After academic positions at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , the Kellogg School of Management and Stanford University , he has been Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego since 1979, where he was Chairman of the Economics Faculty from 1982 to 1985 . In 2011 he retired , but continues to work scientifically.
He deals with environmental economics and resource allocation , microeconomics , mechanism design theory, and public finance .
After Groves are named:
- Vickrey-Clarke-Groves Mechanism , a class of mechanisms whose members have the property that truthful bidding is a dominant strategy for the players
- Groves-Ledyard Mechanism , a model for describing optimal allocations of public goods
Groves is married to the biochemist Katja Lindenberg . He has two children of his own and two stepchildren.
Awards (selection)
- 1977 member of the Econometric Society
- 2002 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Web links
- Theodore Groves at the University of California, San Diego (ucsd.edu)
- Personal website and short résumé (as of 2014) at tgroves.net
- Theodore Francis Groves at prabook.com
- Theodore Groves at academictree.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Fellows of the Econometric Society 1950 to 2018. In: econometricsociety.org. Econometric Society , accessed December 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter G. (PDF; 931 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 23, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Groves, Theodore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Groves, Theodore F .; Groves, Theodore Francis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |