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:
- University of Chicago – Chicago, IL, USA
Roger B. Myerson
Born: 1951-03-29 in Boston, MA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American mathematician
Biography
Roger Bruce Myerson 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. Previously, he held the title The Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics. 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". He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.