Eric Maskin
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Eric Maskin is an American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on how to design effective mechanisms and institutions. His work matters because it helps explain how to structure markets, auctions, and organizations so they function well and produce fair outcomes.
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- A Walrasian theory of money and barter
- Incentives, information, and organizational form
- Markov perfect equilibrium
- Implementation and renegotiation
- Efficient auctions
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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.
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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