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Robert B. Wilson

Prize
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 2020
for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats
Together with: Paul Milgrom
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
5/16/1937
place of birth
Geneva
Age
89 years
educated at
  • Harvard Business School
    • academic degree: Doctor of Business Administration
    • end time: 1/1/1963
  • Harvard University
    • academic degree: Bachelor of Arts
    • end time: 1/1/1959
  • Harvard College
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1994
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1981
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1/1/1976
employer
  • Stanford University
    • start time: 1/1/1964
    • end time: 1/1/2004
doctoral student
  • Alvin Eliot Roth
  • József Sákovics
  • Muhamet Yıldız
  • John Robert Chamberlin
  • Qingmin Liu
  • Marciano M. Siniscalchi
  • Christopher Norio Avery
  • Shinsuke Kambe
  • Sridhar Moorthy
  • David Scott Reitman
  • Benjamin Golub
  • Robert Ernest Verrecchia
  • David S. Ahn
  • Eiichiro Kazumori
  • Mikhail Mikhailovich Klimenko
  • Paul Milgrom
  • Sushil Bikhchandani
  • Bengt Holmström
  • Robert Gibbons
  • Claude d'Aspremont Lynden
  • Jean-Pierre Ponssard
  • Yuliy Sannikov
  • Robert W. Rosenthal
  • Peter C. Cramton
field of work
  • management
  • mathematical economics
  • economics
occupation
  • economist
  • university teacher
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