The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007
Awarded on: 2007-10-15
"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"
Affiliations:
- Institute for Advanced Study – Princeton, NJ, USA
Eric S. Maskin
Born: 1950-12-12 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American Nobel laureate in economics
Biography
Eric Stark Maskin is an American economist and mathematician. He was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory". He is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard University.