Eric S. Maskin
| Eric Maskin | |
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| Born |
December 12, 1950 New York City, New York USA |
| Nationality | United States |
| 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 |
Jean Tirole Drew Fudenberg Robert W. Vishny Mathias Dewatripont David S. Scharfstein Abhijit Banerjee |
| Contributions | Mechanism design |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize (2007) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist and 2007 Nobel laureate recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory". He is the Adams University Professor at Harvard University. 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.
Maskin was born in New York City on December 12, 1950, into a Jewish family, and spent his youth in Alpine, New Jersey. He graduated from Tenafly High School in Tenafly, New Jersey, in 1968, and attended Harvard University, where he earned A.B.. He continued to earn a Ph.D. in applied mathematics at the same institution. In 1976, after earning his doctorate, Maskin became a research fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge University. In the following year, he joined the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1985 he returned to Harvard as the Louis Berkman Professor of Economics, where he remained until 2000. That year, he moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. In addition to his position at the Princeton Institute, Maskin is the director of the Jerusalem Summer School in Economic Theory at The Institute for Advanced Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2011, Maskin has returned to Harvard again.
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