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2016 CME Group-MSRI Prize Announced
View Press Release (February 1, 2017)
The 11th annual CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications will be awarded to ROBERT B. WILSON, Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus and Professor of Economics (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford Graduate School of Business at a luncheon in Chicago on February 2, 2017.
The CME Group-MSRI Prize is awarded to an individual or a group to recognize originality and innovation in the use of mathematical, statistical or computational methods for the study of the behavior of markets, and more broadly of economics.
About Robert Wilson
Dr. Wilson's research and teaching are on market design, pricing, negotiation, and related topics concerning industrial organization and information economics. He is an expert on game theory and its applications.
Dr. Wilson has been a major contributor to auction designs and competitive bidding
strategies in the oil, communication, and power industries, and to the design of
innovative pricing schemes. His work on pricing of priority service for electric power has
been implemented in the utility industry. His book on Nonlinear Pricing (Oxford Press,
1993) is an encyclopedic analysis of tariff design and related topics for public utilities,
including power, communications, and transport; it won the 1995 Leo Melamed Prize, awarded biannually by the University of Chicago for “outstanding scholarship by a business professor.” His work on game theory includes wage bargaining and strikes, and in legal contexts, settlement negotiations. He has authored some of the basic studies of reputational effects in predatory pricing, price wars, and other competitive battles.
He has published approximately a hundred articles in professional journals and books since completing the Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral degrees at Harvard College and the Harvard Business School. He has been an associate editor of several journals, and delivered several public lectures. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a designated distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association, and a fellow, former officer and Council member of the Econometric Society. The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration conferred an honorary Doctor of Economics degree in 1986, and the University of Chicago conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1995.
About the event
Prior to the lunch and award presentation, a panel discussion on Frontiers of Game-theoretic Applications in Economics will be held with the following panelists:
- Drew Fudenberg, Professor of Economics, MIT
- Srihari Govindan, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Rochester
- Bengt Holmström, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2013 recipient of the CME-MSRI Prize. 2016 Nobel Prize Winner
- Paul Milgrom, Shirley R. and Leonard W. Ely Jr. Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Economics Department, Stanford University
- Roger Myerson, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago. 2007 Nobel Prize Winner
- Philip Reny, The Hugo F. Sonnenschein Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College, University of Chicago
- Alvin Roth, Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Stanford University
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2016 CME Group-MSRI Prize Selection Committee:
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Medal awarded to the winner of the CME Group-MSRI Prize |
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