Information

Personalborn in 1951 in the United States.

EducationPh.D. in Operations Research at Stanford University.

Academic AppointmentsCraig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Research Field

Prof. Roth works in the fields of game theory, market design and experimental economics, and is known for his emphasis on applying economic theory to solutions for "real-world" problems. In particular, he helped redesign mechanisms for selecting medical residents, for matching children to schools in New York City, Denver, New Orleans and other American cities, and has helped established kidney exchange as a standard form of transplantation. Describing the dynamism of market design, Prof. Roth suggests that “as the conditions of the market change, the behavior of people change and that causes old rules to be discarded and new rules to be created”.