Eric Maskin
Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950) 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.
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| Born | December 12, 1950 New York City, US |
| Academic career | |
| Institution | Harvard University Institute for Advanced Study Massachusetts Institute of Technology Princeton University University of Cambridge |
| Field | Game theory |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Kenneth Arrow |
| Doctoral students | Abhijit Banerjee Drew Fudenberg Robert W. Vishny Mathias Dewatripont David S. Scharfstein Jean Tirole |
| Contributions | Mechanism design |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize (2007) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Until 2011, he was the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, and a visiting lecturer with the rank of professor at Princeton University.
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