Alvin E. Roth

Alvin Eliot Roth ( born December 18, 1951 in New York City ) is an American economist and was a professor of economics and business administration at Harvard University, and since mid-2012 at Stanford University. His research focuses on game theory, experimental economics, and market structures. 2012 was awarded to him together with Lloyd S. Shapley, the price of Economics of the Swedish Riksbank in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( Nobel Prize in Economics ).

Life

Roth received his Ph.D. in Operations Research in 1974 from Stanford University and then worked until 1982 at the University of Illinois. The first professor of economics, he joined in 1983 at the University of Pittsburgh. This chair, which was supplemented by a 1985 Business Administration, he held until 1998, and then to switch to Harvard and finally in 2012 to Stanford. Been visiting professor of economics in 1986 in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in 1995 1995/96 held.

Works

• With John H. Kagel: Handbook of Experimental Economics. Princeton University Press, 1997.
• The Shapley Value: Essays in Honor of Lloyd S. Shapley. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
• Game - Theoretic Models of Bargaining. Cambridge University Press, 1985.