Roger Myerson

04/07/2021

As a child, economist Roger Myerson was a 'worrier' often comforted by his father. When Myerson's father ended up in a retirement home, it was Myerson's turn to comfort his father instead.

Listen to our latest podcast episode with Myerson: https://bit.ly/39HW4MU

04/07/2021

Roger Myerson appointed inaugural David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor

04/07/2021

Roger Myerson addresses EEA-ESEM at the GSE's Bellaterra Campus

29/04/2021

Comparison of Scoring Rules in Poisson Voting Games
Scoring rules are compared by the equilibria that they generate for simple elections with three candidates and voters drawn from large Poisson distributions.
https://ideas.repec.org/p/ecm/wc2000/0686.html

29/04/2021

Economic Analysis of Constitutions
This paper is a preliminary draft of an article to appear in Chicago Law Review (2000), as part of a symposium reviewing two new books on economic analysis of constitutions: Dennis Mueller's Constitutional Democracy and Robert Cooter's Strategic Constitution.
https://ideas.repec.org/p/nwu/cmsems/1291.html

28/04/2021

Virtual utility and the core for games with incomplete information
The core is extended to games with incomplete information.
https://ideas.repec.org/p/ecm/nasm04/659.html

26/04/2021

Sequential Equilibria in Bayesian Games with Communication
We study the effects of communication in Bayesian games when the players are sequentially rational but some combinations of types have zero probability.
https://ideas.repec.org/p/cwl/cwldpp/1542.html

24/04/2021

Oligarchic Property Rights And The Transition To A Market Economy In Russia
https://ideas.repec.org/p/red/sed006/288.html

23/04/2021

Interview with the 2007 Laureates in Economics Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson
https://ideas.repec.org/p/ris/nobelp/2007_005.html

22/04/2021

Perspectives on Mechanism Design in Economic Theory
Roger B. Myerson delivered his Prize Lecture on 8 December 2007 at Aula Magna, Stockholm University.
https://ideas.repec.org/p/ris/nobelp/2007_006.html

20/04/2021

Autobiography
A scholar's greatest asset is his or her intuition about what questions to study and with what methodology. A scientific autobiography should shed some light on how this intuition grew and developed over time.
https://ideas.repec.org/p/ris/nobelp/2007_008.html

20/04/2021

Local foundations for better governance : A Review of Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao's Localizing Development
https://ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps/7131.html

18/04/2021

The strength of American federal democracy : lessons for global development
A review of the history of the United States from its colonial origins shows how America's successful development has always been guided by two basic principles: representative democracy, and a proper division of power between national and subnational governments.
https://ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps/7512.html

18/04/2021

Working Paper 300 - Village Communities and Global Development
Theories of economic development should be based on a general understanding of how communities have been organized in traditional societies.
https://ideas.repec.org/p/adb/adbwps/2399.html

17/04/2021

The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics
Author & abstract
https://ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura/00635.html

17/04/2021

A recent talk urged that Americans should never again elect a President who has not served responsibly in a lower office under our constitutional system of government. We need leaders who have respected democratic norms & provided effective public service.
https://home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/research/nabe2020text.pdf

16/04/2021

How does market socialism in China resemble federalism in America? This was discussed at the Institute for New Structural Economics in Beijing; see .

16/04/2021

To achieve unity, Joe Biden should visit the reddest states, to talk with voters and local officials about their concerns. Recent Democratic congressional candidates can assist this outreach to red-state voters. See (with Kael Weston).

He must reach out to voters on the other side.

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