The Nobel Prize in Economics

The Nobel Prize in Economics


2007年度ノーベル経済学賞　受賞者が発表された。

Leonid Hurwicz、Eric Maskin、Roger Myerson　

この3名が受賞。

そして、朝、ダーリンからこんな情報が届く。
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受賞者の1人である　Roger Myerson　は、

今は　Chicago大学にいるけれど、1976年-2001年までKelloggに在籍し、

受賞した研究内容は　Kellogg　にいた時のものだったんだよ。
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もっと早く入学していたら、

ノーベル賞を受賞できるような人物とは、どんな人なのか

話すチャンスがあったかもしれないのにね。


　研究内容について (参考まで)

Myerson won his Nobel for his contributions to “mechanism design.”

An example of a “mechanism design” problem, as applied to businesses,
is the following. Suppose that you are the CEO of a company and you
have a bunch of division managers. These division managers have
information about the underlying profitability of investments in their
divisions that you don’t, and do not necessarily have an incentive
to tell you the truth about what they know (perhaps because if they
say that their division is unprofitable, you will shut down the division).

Then you face a “mechanism design” problem: how do you construct
an incentive system (a “mechanism”) for the managers that will lead
to the most efficient investments possible, taking into account thefact
that the division managers are (a) to some extent self-interested,
and (b) have private information about their divisions?