"I’m glad to receive this award for my work applying game theory to economics. It’s a powerful tool for detailed studies of dynamic interactions affected by informational differences."
Robert Wilson
Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business
2016 CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications Recipient
Robert Wilson’s research focuses on game theory and its applications in economics, such as design of auctions and related markets. A theme of his joint work with David Kreps was dynamic effects of different information among economic agents, and with Srihari Govindan, foundational studies of axiomatic criteria for selecting among equilibria. His recent research studies sufficient conditions for repeated interactions to sustain cooperative behaviors.
He has co-authored some of the basic studies of reputational effects in predatory pricing, price wars, and other competitive battles. He has contributed to auction designs and competitive bidding strategies in the oil, communication, and power industries. His work includes studies of wage bargaining and strikes, and in legal contexts, settlement negotiations.
Wilson has been at the Stanford Business School since 1964. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association, former president of the Econometric Society, recipient of honorary degrees from the Norwegian School of Economics and the University of Chicago, and winner of the Foundation BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge prize in finance and economics. His book on nonlinear pricing won the University of Chicago’s Melamed prize.
The CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications was founded in 2006 by CME Group’s Chairman Emeritus, Leo Melamed. CME Group, in partnership the esteemed Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, awards this prize annually to a recipient with exemplary work in the field of mathematical sciences and who recognizes the vital impact quantitative research and application play in shaping global financial markets. It recognizes an individual or group who has contributed and applied original and significant ideas and concepts to quantitative fields such as mathematics, statistics and computing for the study of market’s behavior and global economics.
The 2016 CME Group-MSRI Prize was presented to Robert Wilson at the annual award luncheon in Chicago on February 2, 2017.
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* Past CME Group-MSRI Prize winners have included distinguished luminaries in economics and mathematics. Five out of 10 of these past recipients have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
2015 | Douglas Diamond
Fischer Black Visiting Professor of Financial Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2015-2016 and Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago
2014 | José A. Scheinkman
Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of Economics at Columbia University and Theodore A. Wells ‘29 Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University
2013 | Bengt Holmstrom
Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (2016), Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012 | Robert J. Shiller
Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (2013), Sterling Professor of Economics,Yale University, and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management
2011 | Thomas J. Sargent
Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (2011), William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business, Stern School of Business, New York University, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
2010 | Jean Tirole
Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (2014), Scientific Director of the Industrial Economics Institute at the University of Toulouse Capitole, Member of the Toulouse School of Economics
2009 | Sanford J. Grossman
Chairman and CEO, Quantitative Financial Strategies, Inc.
2008 | Lars Peter Hansen
Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (2013) and David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and Statistics, University of Chicago
2007 | David M. Kreps
Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
2006 | Stephen A. Ross
Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management
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