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Vinner för auktionsteori – har aldrig budat själv

”Väldigt goda nyheter.” Det säger en något yrvaken Robert B. Wilson, som precis fått beskedet att han får dela Riksbankens ekonomipris till Alfred Nobels minne med kollegan Paul R. Milgrom.

– Det är väldigt tidigt på morgonen här, säger Wilson till Kungliga Vetenskapsakademin på en skakig telefonlänk.

Deras upptäckter inom auktionsteori har ”gynnat säljare, köpare och skattebetalare världen över”, anser Kungliga vetenskapsakademien. Wilson kan däremot inte minnas om han själv någonsin deltagit i en auktion.

– Men om du ser en annons i en söktjänst på internet var ju den annonsen ofta såld på en auktion, säger han.

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Paul Milgrom
Wikipedia (en)
Paul Robert Milgrom (born April 20, 1948) is an American economist. He is the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987. Milgrom is an expert in game theory, specifically auction theory and pricing strategies. 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 that create efficient markets for complex commercial auctions and exchanges. He is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics of 2020 together with Robert B. Wilson. Milgrom and his thesis advisor Robert B. Wilson designed the auction protocol the FCC uses to determine which phone company gets what cellular frequencies. Milgrom also led the team that designed the 2016-17 incentive auction, which was a two-sided auction to reallocate radio frequencies from TV broadcast to wireless broadband uses.
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Robert B. Wilson
Wikipedia (en)
Robert Butler "Bob" Wilson, Jr. (born May 16, 1937) is an American economist and the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He 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 the Stanford Business School, 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.

De har fått ekonomipriset tidigare år

Riksbankens ekonomipris till Alfred Nobels minne har delats ut sedan den svenska centralbankens 300-årsjubileum 1969.

De senaste årens pristagare:
2019: E Duflo (Frankrike), A Banerjee (Indien), M Kremer (USA)
2018: W D Nordhaus (USA), P M Romer (USA)
2017: R Thaler (USA)
2016: O Hart (Storbritannien), B Holmström (Finland)
2015: A Deaton (Storbritannien/USA)
2014: J Tirole (Frankrike)
2013: E Fama (USA), L P Hansen (USA), R Shiller (USA)
2012: A Roth (USA), L Shapley (USA)
2011: T J Sargent (USA), C A Sims (USA)
2010: P A Diamond (USA), D T Mortensen (USA), C A Pissarides (Cypern)
2009: E Ostrom (USA), O Williamson (USA)
2008: P Krugman (USA)

Källa: Nobelstiftelsen

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