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Principal
School of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study
Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
maskin@ias.eduHome page at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Eric Maskin is Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Previously he taught at MIT and Harvard University, where he was Louis Berkman Professor of Economics. Professor Maskin has worked in many areas of economic theory, including game theory, the economics of incentives, and social choice theory. His current projects involve designing auctions, comparing different electoral rules such as majority voting, understanding the role of monetary policy, and studying the advantages and drawbacks of protecting intellectual property. He has served as an expert on auctions to GTE and helped design the UK ETS auction. He received his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007.
