2012

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Links to other sites Blog Review article Roth A. E. (2008) What have we learned from market design?, Economic Journal, 118: 285–310. Books Moulin H. (1995) Cooperative Microeconomics. Princeton University Press. Roth A. E. and Sotomayor M. (1990) Two-sided Matching: a Study in Game-theoretic Modeling and Analysis, Econometric Society Monograph Series, Cambridge University Press. Articles…

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Banquet speech

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Laureates and Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen We all know the wonderful image popularized by Isaac Newton, of how he could see so far only because he stood on the shoulders of giants. That image describes well how my work has built on that of my…

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The Prize in Economic Sciences 2012 This year’s Prize to Lloyd Shapley and Alvin Roth extends from abstract theory developed in the 1960s, over empirical work in the 1980s, to ongoing efforts to find practical solutions to real-world problems. Examples include the assignment of new doctors to hospitals, students to schools, and human organs for…

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