Alvin E. Roth

Born: 1951-12-18 in New York, NY, USA

Gender: male

Field: American economist (born 1951)

Biography

Alvin Eliot Roth is an American academic. He is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and the Gund professor of economics and business administration emeritus at Harvard University. He was President of the American Economic Association in 2017.

Nobel Prize Details

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2012

Awarded on: 2012-10-15

"for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design"

Affiliations:

Harvard University – Cambridge, MA, USA
Harvard Business School – Boston, MA, USA

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