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Roger Myerson

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Roger Myerson
Myerson in 2008
Born (1951-03-29) March 29, 1951 (age 73)
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Academic career
FieldGame theory
InstitutionUniversity of Chicago
Northwestern University
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 of the University of Chicago.[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]

Biography

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Roger Myerson was born in 1951 in Boston into a Jewish[5] family. He attended Harvard University, where he received his A.B., summa cum laude, and S.M. in applied mathematics in 1973. He completed his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1976.[6] His doctorate thesis was entitled A Theory of Cooperative Games.[7]

From 1976 to 2001, Myerson was a professor of economics at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, where he conducted much of his Nobel-winning research.[8] From 1978 to 1979, he was visiting researcher at Bielefeld University. He was visiting professor of economics at the University of Chicago from 1985 to 1986 and from 2000 to 2001. He became professor of economics at Chicago in 2001. Currently, he is the inaugural David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago.[9]

Awards and honors

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Bank of Sweden Nobel Memorial Prize

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Myerson was one of the three winners of the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, the other two being Leonid Hurwicz of the University of Minnesota, and Eric Maskin of the Institute for Advanced Study. He was awarded the prize for his contributions to mechanism design theory.[10]

Myerson made a path-breaking contribution to mechanism design theory when he discovered a fundamental connection between the allocation to be implemented and the monetary transfers needed to induce informed agents to reveal their information truthfully. Mechanism design theory allows for people to distinguish situations in which markets work well from those in which they do not. The theory has helped economists identify efficient trading mechanisms, regulation schemes, and voting procedures. Today, the theory plays a central role in many areas of economics and parts of political science.[10]

Memberships and honors

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Myerson is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Philosophical Society.[7] He is a Fellow of the Game Theory Society,[11] and serves as an advisory board member on the International Journal of Game Theory.[12] Myerson holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel in 2002 [13] and received the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize in 2009.[14] He also served on the Social Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2016.

Personal life

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In 1980, Myerson married Regina (née Weber) and the couple had two children, Daniel and Rebecca.[15] His daughter, Rebecca, is a health economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[16]

Publications

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Game theory and mechanism design
  • Myerson, Roger B. (August 1977). "Graphs and Cooperation in Games" (PDF). Mathematics of Operations Research. 2 (3): 225–229. doi:10.1287/moor.2.3.225. hdl:10419/220606.
  • Myerson, Roger B. (October 1977). "Two-Person Bargaining Problems and Comparable Utility" (PDF). Econometrica. 45 (7): 1631–1637. doi:10.2307/1913955. JSTOR 1913955.
  • Myerson, R. B. (June 1978). "Refinements of the Nash Equilibrium Concept" (PDF). International Journal of Game Theory. 7 (2): 73–80. doi:10.1007/BF01753236. S2CID 222358176.
  • Myerson, Roger B. (January 1979). "Incentive Compatibility and the Bargaining Problem". Econometrica. 47 (1): 61–73. doi:10.2307/1912346. JSTOR 1912346.
  • Myerson, Roger B. (February 1981). "Optimal Auction Design". Mathematics of Operations Research. 6 (1): 58–73. doi:10.1287/moor.6.1.58. S2CID 12282691.
  • Myerson, Roger B. (November 1983). "Mechanism Design by an Informed Principal" (PDF). Econometrica. 51 (6): 1767–1797. doi:10.2307/1912116. JSTOR 1912116.
  • Myerson, Roger B. (1984). "Two-Person Bargaining Problems with Incomplete Information". Econometrica. 52 (2): 461–487. doi:10.2307/1911499. JSTOR 1911499.
  • "Bayesian Equilibrium and Incentive Compatibility," in Hurwicz, Leonid; Schmeidler, David; Sonnenschein, Hugo, eds. (2005). Social goals and social organization : essays in memory of Elisha Pazner. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 229–259. ISBN 9780521023955.

He wrote a general textbook on game theory in 1991, and has also written on the history of game theory, including his review of the origins and significance of noncooperative game theory.[17] He also served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Game Theory for ten years.

Myerson has worked on economic analysis of political institutions and written several major survey papers:

His recent work on democratization has raised critical questions about American policy in occupied Iraq:

Books
  • Game theory: analysis of conflict. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1991. ISBN 9780674728615.
  • Probability models for economic decisions. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Brooke/Cole. 2005. ISBN 9780534423810.
Lectures

Concepts named after him

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See also

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References

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  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".
  5. ^ "Jewish Nobel Prize laureates - Economics". www.science.co.il. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  6. ^ "Front & Center with John Callaway: The Global Economic Crisis | Pritzker Military Museum & Library | Chicago".
  7. ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae of Roger Myerson" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-08-15.
  8. ^ JUF News: Nobel Prize winners have Jewish, Chicago connections
  9. ^ "Roger Myerson appointed inaugural David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor". 13 November 2018. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  10. ^ a b "Roger Myerson wins 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics". University of Chicago. 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2008-08-16.
  11. ^ "Game Theory Society - People".
  12. ^ "International Journal of Game Theory Editors".
  13. ^ "Honorary Awards Faculty of Business and Economics".
  14. ^ "Jean Jacques Laffont Prize Former Laureates". 5 June 2018.
  15. ^ Roger B. Myerson on Nobelprize.org Edit this at Wikidata, accessed 11 October 2020
  16. ^ "Myerson, Rebecca". 28 August 2019.
  17. ^ Myerson, Roger B. (1999). "Nash Equilibrium and the History of Economic Theory". Journal of Economic Literature. 37 (3): 1067–1082. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.130.7955. doi:10.1257/jel.37.3.1067. JSTOR 2564872.
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Awards
Preceded by Laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
2007
Served alongside: Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin 		Succeeded by
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