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Robert B. Wilson

Economist; Nobel laureate in economic sciences for improvements to auction theory

United States · b. 1937

Business and finance

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Economist at Stanford Graduate School of Business who worked on auction design and game theory. Shared the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with his former student Paul Milgrom.

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I have always thought of him as the leader in all of this so … but I take great pride in him because he was my PhD student so I take a lot of pride in having sort of at an early stage influenced him, and in this whole field of market design and auction design. This of course, by the way, is the third of my students who’ve won Nobel Prizes.

Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, The Nobel Prize, 12 October 2020 source ↗

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