Economics & Finance

Alvin Roth

Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Alvin E. Roth is the Winner of the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

He is the Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University & the Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard University.

His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and market design.

Among the matching markets he has helped redesign are the National Resident Matching Program, which matches approximately twenty thousand doctors a year with residency programs at American hospitals.

As chair of the American Economic Association's Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, Professor Roth has helped redesign the matching market for newly-graduating PhD economists.

In addition to his work redesigning matching markets, Professor Roth has helped design entirely new matching markets. He is a co-founder and designer of the New England Program for Kidney Exchange for incompatible patient-donor pairs.

He was the President of the American Economic Association in 2017.

He is a Fellow of Econometric Society & the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1983, he was the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has also recieved an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.

Known For: Designing and Improving Matching Markets; Advancing The Idea of ‘Economic Engineering’.

Born: 1951.

Doctoral Dissertation: Topics in Cooperative Game Theory.

Doctoral Supervisor: Robert Wilson.

Education

Ph.D. Operations Research, Stanford University · M.S. Operations Research, Stanford University · B.S. Operations Research, Columbia University

Topics

Game Theory · Experimental Economics · Market Design