Robert B. Wilson
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Robert B. Wilson appears in Vinony's Nobel Prize in Economics collection — one of 99 entries. It also appears in American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1937 births, American operations researchers and Distinguished fellows of the American Economic Association.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1937-05-16 ) May 16, 1937 (age 89) , Geneva, Nebraska , U.S.
- Education
- Harvard University ( BA , MBA , DBA )
- Known for
- Game theory in industrial organization , Sequential quadratic programming
- Awards
- Golden Goose Award (2014), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2015), Nobel Prize in Economics (2020)
- Fields
- Economist , Management science
- Institutions
- Stanford University
- Thesis
- A simplicial algorithm for concave programming (1963)
- Doctoral advisor
- Howard Raiffa
- Doctoral students
- Claude d'Aspremont Lynden , Peter Cramton , Robert Gibbons , Benjamin Golub , Bengt R. Holmström , Matthew O. Jackson , Paul Milgrom , Jean-Pierre Ponssard , Robert W. Rosenthal , Alvin E. Roth , Yuliy Sannikov
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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
- Robert
- Family name
- Wilson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Geneva
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Harvard College
- Employer
- Stanford University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- mathematical economics
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- date of birth
- 1937-05-16
- member of
- Econometric Society
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- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Butler "Bob" Wilson, Jr. (born May 16, 1937) is an American economist who is the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was jointly awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together with his Stanford colleague and former student Paul R. Milgrom, "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats". Two more of his students, Alvin E. Roth and Bengt Holmström, are also Nobel Laureates in their own right.
Wilson is known for his contributions to management science and business economics. His doctoral thesis introduced sequential quadratic programming, which became a leading iterative method for nonlinear programming. With other mathematical economists at Stanford, he helped to reformulate the economics of industrial organization and organization theory using non-cooperative game theory. His research on nonlinear pricing has influenced policies for large firms, particularly in the energy industry, especially electricity.
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