As published in The International Business Times, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has identified twenty-five young economists who it expects will shape the world’s thinking about the global economy in the future. In this list we can find one of our affiliates, Jonathan Levin. Congratulations Jon! Jonathan Levin, as described in this article, is an expert…
Robert Wilson, Paul Milgrom and R. Preston McAfee, whose basic research on game theory and auctions enabled the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to first auction spectrum licenses in 1994, were announced today as recipients of the 2014 Golden Goose Award. They will receive their awards on September 18 at the third annual Golden Goose Awards ceremony…
Robert Wilson, Paul Milgrom and R. Preston McAfee, whose basic research on game theory and auctions enabled the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to first auction spectrum licenses in 1994, were announced today as recipients of the 2014 Golden Goose Award.
Congratulations to Jon Levin, who was one of only two economists to win a Guggenheim fellowship in this year’s competition! Jon proposes to use his fellowship to study competition in health care. Guggenheim Fellowships are grants to selected individuals made for a minimum of six months and a maximum of twelve months. The Foundation understands…
Paul’s 20-year-old research on incentives was mentioned in an article published on September 19 in the New York Times. According to the article, too much pressure to improve students’ test scores can reduce attention to other aspects of the curriculum and discourage cultivation of broader problem-solving skills, also known as “teaching to the test.” The economists Bengt Holmstrom and Paul…
Dr. Milgrom is interviewed in Conjuntura Econômica, a prominent business/economics journal in Brasil. “It is a consensus among Economists that Paul Milgrom´s contributions on Auction Theory, Game Theory, Organizational Economics and Finance put him on a short-list for the Nobel Prize in Economics. On top of his academic contributions, Milgrom has also had a key…
A group of prominent economists including Auctionomics’ Paul Milgrom convened with FCC chairman Julius Genachowski and Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. They urged legislators to adopt rules that enable the FCC to design and run incentive auctions to allow broadcasters to relinquish under-used spectrum allocations for higher-value uses like mobile…
Paul Milgrom of Stanford University and Auctionomics, Inc. deliveredthe Berglas Lecture for 2011 at Tel Aviv University. The topic is the importance of budget constraints in auctions. Watch a video of the talk here: http://vimeo.com/21729271 (courtesy of Tel Aviv University)
On September 11th Reed Hundt visited the Auctionomics office and joined the Auctionomics board of advisors. Hundt was the chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission when the first major auction for radio spectrum was desgined and run, and a member of Obama’s transition team.
Auctionomics has been awarded an SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) from the National Science Foundation grant to develop the technology of using budgets in multi-product auctions.
