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On September 18, economists Preston McAfee, Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson received the Golden Goose Award in a ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The award is given annually to federally funded researchers whose “seemingly obscure studies have led to major breakthroughs and resulted in significant societal impact.” A video describing the [...]

Paul was a lunchtime speaker at the AEA luncheon on January 4, 2014, honoring 2012 Nobel laureates Lloyd Shapley and Alvin Roth. The event was webcast and a link to the video is here.

The BBVA Foundations of Knowledge Prizes were awarded on June 20, completing a two-day ceremony. The first day, June 19, was highlighted by a concert at Teatro Real honoring especially the modern music laureate, Pierre Boulez. The foundation awarded prizes in eight areas: Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics) Biomedicine Ecology and Conservation Biology Information and [...]

Paul Milgrom today delivered the annual Nomura lecture at the Mathematics Institute at Oxford University in the UK. The annual lecture highlights applications of mathematics in a variety of different fields. This year’s lecture, entitled “Strategy-Proof Auctions for Complex Resource Allocations,” was delivered to a large audience of mathematicians and others in the Martin Wood […]

A conference that Stanford has dubbed the “Milgromfest” was held on April 19-20, 2013 to honor Paul Milgrom’s 65th birthday. The conference featured sessions with economics research papers presented by Paul’s former students and collaborators in diverse areas. The conference program includes research studies on auctions, market design, organizations, complementarities, incentives, and game theory — all of […]

A conference that Stanford has dubbed the “Milgromfest” was held on April 19-20, 2013 to honor Paul Milgrom’s 65th birthday. The conference featured sessions with economics research papers presented by Paul’s former students and collaborators in diverse areas. The conference program includes research studies on auctions, market design, organizations, complementarities, incentives, and game theory — all of […]

The BBVA Foundation announced in Madrid today that Paul Milgrom has won the 2012 Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the area of economics, finance and management. According to the prize jury, the prize was awarded “for his seminal contributions to an unusually wide range of fields of economics including auctions, market design, contracts and incentives, […]

The 2012 Nobel prize for economics celebrated the new field of Market Design. Lloyd Shapley – a mathematician – wrote the first analyses that made the development of this field possible. Alvin Roth not only advanced the theory but also put the new market design analyses to work in important matching applications, including one for […]

Paul has given a public lecture about the US Incentive Auctions at CERGE-EI in Prague, which can be seen here on the Internet. Cerge is a joint workplace of Charles University in Prague & The Economics Institute of The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. In addition, CERGE has posted a video interview with Paul about his work [...]

The American Economic Association has announced the results of its elections for 2013. The new president is William Nordhaus of Yale University and the two new VP’s are Paul Milgrom of Stanford University and Raquel Fernandez of NYU. Also elected were two new members of the AEA executive committee: Jon Levin from Stanford and Amy Finkelstein […]