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Vinony catalogs Paul Milgrom in its Nobel Prize in Economics collection (99 entries). It also appears in American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Vinony's link graph records 399 inbound references to Paul Milgrom, and connects out to game theory, Doctor of Philosophy and Bachelor of Arts.
Vinony files it under 1948 births, 21st-century American economists and American actuaries.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1948-04-20 ) April 20, 1948 (age 78) , Detroit , Michigan , U.S.
- Known for
- Auction theory , Incentive theory , Market design
- Spouse
- Eva Meyersson
- Education
- University of Michigan ( BA ), Stanford University ( MS , PhD )
- Thesis
- The structure of information in competitive bidding (1979)
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert B. Wilson
- Discipline
- Economics
- Institutions
- Northwestern University (1979–1983), Yale University (1982–1987), Stanford University (1987–present)
- Doctoral students
- Susan Athey , Luís Cabral , Joshua Gans , Gillian Hadfield , Li Shengwu
- Awards
- Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics (2008), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2012), Golden Goose Award (2014), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2020) Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards (2024)
- Website
- Information at IDEAS / RePEc
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2020
“for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Detroit
- Occupation
- academic
- Employer
- Stanford University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert B. Wilson
- Field of work
- economics
- Official website
- profiles.stanford.edu/paul-milgrom
- Image
- Paul Milgrom Headshot.jpg
- Work location
- Stanford
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- date of birth
- 1948-04-20
- member of
- Econometric Society
- name in native language
- Paul Milgrom
- Commons category
- Paul Milgrom
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
Paul Robert Milgrom (born April 20, 1948) is an American economist. He is the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, a position he has held since 1987. He is a professor in the Stanford School of Engineering as well and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Research. Milgrom is an expert in game theory, specifically auction theory and pricing strategies. He is the winner of the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together with Robert B. Wilson, "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats".
He is the co-creator of the no-trade theorem with Nancy Stokey. He is the co-founder of several companies, the most recent of which, Auctionomics, provides software and services for commercial auctions and exchanges.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paul Milgrom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.