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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
  • 2007 - Nobel Prize for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1983 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 1981 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1980 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Eric Maskin is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields within economics, econometrics, and finance, with a strong focus on game theory and voting systems, auction theory, and economic models.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Game Theory and Voting Systems
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Economic theories and models
  • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
  • Legal and Constitutional Studies
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
  • Game Theory and Applications

Maskin's research is published predominantly in venues such as Social Choice and Welfare, SSRN Electronic Journal, Közgazdasági Szemle, American Economic Review Insights, and the Journal of Political Economy.

Recent papers include:

  • "Strategy-Proofness, Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, and Majority Rule" (2020, American Economic Review Insights)
  • "A modified version of Arrow's IIA condition" (2020, Social Choice and Welfare)
  • "Borda's Rule and Arrow's Independence Condition" (2024, Journal of Political Economy)
  • "Understanding Big Data: Data Calculus in the Digital Era" (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "A puha költségvetési korlát - II." (2022, Közgazdasági Szemle)

Frequent co-authors of Eric Maskin include A. Michael Spence, János Kornai, Gérard Roland, Partha Dasgupta, and Long Chen, reflecting collaborative work across multiple areas of economic theory and applications.

Their contributions extend into the subfields of economics and econometrics, management science and operations research, artificial intelligence, and marketing.

In terms of published books, Maskin has at least one work through The MIT Press titled "Lives of the Laureates" published in 2020.

Awards and honors received by Maskin include:

  • Nobel Memorial Prize laureate in Economics (2007) for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory
  • Nobel Prize (2007) for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2008)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1983)
  • Fellow of the Econometric Society (1981)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1980)
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Best Publications

  • Credit and efficiency in centralized and decentralized economies

    Mathias Dewatripont;Eric Maskin

  • THE FOLK THEOREM IN REPEATED GAMES WITH DISCOUNTING OR WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION

    Drew Fudenberg;Eric Maskin

  • The Politician and the Judge: Accountability in Government

    Eric Maskin;Jean Tirole

  • Nash Equilibrium and Welfare Optimality

    Eric S. Maskin

  • Monopoly with Incomplete Information

    Eric Maskin;John Riley

  • Understanding the Soft Budget Constraint

    János Kornai;Eric Maskin;Gérald Roland

  • Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation

    James Bessen;Eric Maskin

  • The Existence of Equilibrium in Discontinuous Economic Games, I: Theory

    Eric S. Maskin;Partha Sarathi Dasgupta

  • The Implementation of Social Choice Rules: Some General Results on Incentive Compatibility

    Partha Dasgupta;Peter Hammond;Eric Maskin

  • Unforeseen Contingencies and Incomplete Contracts

    Eric Maskin;Eric Maskin;Jean Tirole

  • Markov Perfect Equilibrium: I. Observable Actions

    Eric Maskin;Jean Marcal Pierre Tirole

  • Optimal Auctions with Risk-Averse Buyers

    Eric Maskin;John Riley

  • A Theory of Dynamic Oligopoly, II: Price Competition, Kinked Demand Curves, and Edgeworth Cycles

    Eric Maskin;Jean Tirole

  • Renegotiation in repeated games

    Joseph Farrell;Eric Maskin

  • A theory of dynamic oligopoly, I : overview and quantity competition with large fixed costs

    Eric Maskin;Jean Tirole

  • The Folk Theorem with Imperfect Public Information

    Drew Fudenberg;David K. Levine;Eric Maskin

  • Wage Inequality and Segregation by Skill

    Michael Kremer;Eric Maskin

  • Incentives, Information, and Organizational Form

    Eric Maskin;Yingyi Qian;Chenggang Xu

  • The principal-agent relationship with an informed principal. II : Common values

    Eric Maskin;Jean Tirole

  • The Principal-Agent Relationship with an Informed Principal: The Case of Private Values

    Eric Maskin;Jean Tirole

  • A Theory of Dynamic Oligopoly, II: Price Competition

    Eric Maskin;Jean Tirole

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Tirole
Jean Tirole Toulouse School of Economics
Partha Dasgupta
Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge
John G. Riley
John G. Riley University of California, Los Angeles
Mathias Dewatripont
Mathias Dewatripont Université Libre de Bruxelles
Gérard Roland
Gérard Roland University of California, Berkeley
Karl-Göran Mäler
Karl-Göran Mäler Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Yingyi Qian
Yingyi Qian Tsinghua University
Scott Barrett
Scott Barrett Columbia University
János Kornai
János Kornai Corvinus University of Budapest

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