Roger Myerson

Roger Bruce Myerson ( born March 29, 1951 in Boston) is an American economist. He is " Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics " at the University of Chicago. Roger B. Myerson in 2007, together with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin donated by the Bank of Sweden in memory of Alfred Nobel Prize in Economics, Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded.

Life

Roger Myerson received his Bachelor of Arts degree with summa cum laude, and his Master of Applied Mathematics in 1973 at Harvard University. In the same subject, also at Harvard, he received his Ph.D. in 1976 with the dissertation on A Theory of Cooperative Games. He then worked as a lecturer at Northwestern University until 1979. In parallel, he was from 1978 to 1979 as a guest at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research ( ZiF ) in Bielefeld. In 1979 he was at Northwestern a position as associate professor. In 1982 he was appointed professor of the university. As a Visiting Professor of Economics, he was from 1985 to 1986 and again from 2000 to 2001 at the University of Chicago.

Awards

Roger B. Myerson in 2007, together with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin for the work on the draft economic mechanisms instituted by the Bank of Sweden in memory of Alfred Nobel Prize in Economics, Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded. Hurwicz regarded as the founder of the theory; Maskin and Myerson had they but developed significantly.

On October 14, 2013 Roger B. Myerson was awarded the Oskar Morgenstern Medal from the University of Vienna.

Works

• Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict. Harvard University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-674-34115-5
• Probability models for economic Decisions. 2004, ISBN 0-534-42381-7