The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020
Awarded on: 2020-10-12
"for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats"
Affiliations:
- Stanford University – Stanford, CA, USA
Robert B. Wilson
Born: 1937-05-16 in Geneva, NE, USA
Gender: male
Field: Economist and winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics
Biography
Robert Butler "Bob" Wilson, Jr. is an American economist who is the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was jointly awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together with his Stanford colleague and former student Paul R. Milgrom, "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats". Two more of his students, Alvin E. Roth and Bengt Holmström, are also Nobel Laureates in their own right.