Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 19, 1951 ) is an American economist, professor at Harvard University , and teaches at Harvard Business School . He made a significant contribution to game theory , market design, and experimental economics . In 2012, he was awarded, together with Lloyd Shapley, the prize of the Swedish State Bank for Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel for “the theory of stable distribution and the practice of arranging markets” (see the problem of marriages ) [1] .
| Alvin Eliot Roth | |
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| Alvin E. Roth | |
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| Date of Birth | December 19, 1951 (67 years old) |
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| A country |  USA |
| Scientific field | economics , game theory , experimental economics |
| Place of work | Harvard Business School |
| Alma mater | Columbia University Stanford University |
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| Awards and prizes |  Nobel Prize in Economics (2012) |
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Biography
Alvin Eliot Roth was born in New York into a Jewish family; his parents were teachers [2] [3] . He studied at high school to them. Martin Van Buren in Queens , but abandoned her at the age of fifteen, after underestimation [4] . He attended engineering courses at Columbia University and, in the end, was enrolled in the engineering department of the university, after which (1971) he completed a master's and postgraduate course at Stanford University (1974), specializing in operations research [5] . In 1983, he received a Guggenheim scholarship [6] .
From 1986 to 1995 he taught at the Haifa Technion , the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv University [3] .
Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (2013) [7] . Honorary Doctor of Law, University of Exeter (2015).
Major works on the "Nobel" theme
- Roth AE The Economics of Matching: Stability and Incentives // Mathematics of Operations Research. - 1982.- T. 7 . - S. 617-628 .
- Roth AE The Evolution of the Labor Market for Medical Interns and Residents: A Case Study in Game Theory // Journal of Political Economy. - 1984 .-- T. 92 . - S. 991-1016 .
- Roth AE Stability and Polarization of Interests in Job Matching // Econometrica . - 1984 .-- T. 52 . - S. 47-57 .
- Roth AE The College Admission Problem is Not Equivalent to the Marriage Problem // Journal of Economic Theory. - 1985.- T. 36 . - S. 277-288 .
- Roth AE Two-Sided Matching Markets // Econometrica . - 1986.- T. 54 . - S. 425-427 .
- Roth AE, Sotomayor M. The College Admission Problem Revisited // Econometrica . - 1989 .-- T. 57 . - S. 559-570 .
- Roth AE, Vande Vate JH Random Paths to Stability in Two Sided Matching // Econometrica. - 1990 .-- T. 58 . - S. 1475-1480 .
- Roth AE, Rothblum UG Truncation Strategies in Matching Markets - In Search of Advice for Participants // Econometrica . - 1999 .-- T. 67 . - S. 21-43 .
- Roth AE, Sönmez T., Ünver MU Kidney Exchange // Quarterly Journal of Economics. - 2004 .-- T. 119 . - S. 457-488 .
- Roth AE Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions // International Journal of Game Theory. - 2008 .-- T. 36 . - S. 537-569 .
- Roth AE, Sotomayor M. Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis. - Cambridge, N. Y .: Cambridge University Press, 1990. - (Econometric Society Monographs). - ISBN 0-521-39015-X .
Notes
- ↑ Winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics . Encyclopædia Britannica. Date of treatment January 13, 2018. (English)
- ↑ Susan Adams "Un-Freakonomics"
- ↑ 1 2 American Jewish professor Alvin Roth shares Nobel economics prize
- ↑ Famous, Rich, and Successful People Who Were High School or College Dropouts unopened (link not available) . Date of treatment October 15, 2012. Archived October 10, 2012.
- ↑ Curriculum vitae (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment October 15, 2012. Archived October 20, 2012.
- ↑ Alvin E. Roth . John Simon Guggenheim Foundation . gf.org. Date of treatment April 10, 2019.
- ↑ Alvin E. Roth
Links
- Alvin E. Roth at Harvard Business School
- Compilation of research by Alvin Roth
- Maureen Burke Master // Finance and Development. December 2014