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American Nobel laureate in economics

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Eric Stark Maskin is an American economist and mathematician. He was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory".

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That strategic rivalry in a long-term relationship may differ from that of a one-shot game is by now quite a familiar idea.

and Eric Maskin. "The folk theorem in repeated games with discounting or with incomplete information." Econometrica: Journal of the

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Eric Maskin
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We investigate how the degree to which credit markets are centralized affects efficiency when there is asymmetric information.

and Eric Maskin. "Credit and efficiency in centralized and decentralized economies." The Review of Economic Studies 62.4 (1995): 541-555.

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Eric Maskin
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How could such industries as software, semiconductors, and computers have been so innovative despite historically weak patent protection?

Bessen, James, and Eric Maskin. "Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation." The RAND Journal of Economics, 40.4 (2009): p. 611.

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2007Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
1990National Medal of Science
1981Fellow of the Econometric Society
1980Guggenheim Fellowship
Harvard Centennial Medal
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Eric Stark Maskin is an American economist and mathematician. He was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory". He is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard University.

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