Eric Stark Maskin

Eric Stark Maskin is a American economist and co-winner, of the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory."

Eric Maskin is the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, and a visiting lecturer with the rank of Professor in the Princeton University Economics Department[2]. He attended Harvard University where he received his A.B. and Ph.D. After he earned his doctorate from Harvard University, Maskin went to the University of Cambridge in 1976 where he was a research fellow at Jesus College. He taught at MIT from 1977-1984 and from 1985-2000 at Harvard, where he was the Louis Berkman Professor of Economics. In 2000, he moved to the Institute for Advanced Study .

He has worked in diverse areas of economic theory, such as game theory, the economics of incentives, and contract theory. He is particularly well known for his papers on mechanism design/implementation theory and dynamic games. His current research projects include comparing different electoral rules, examining the causes of inequality and studying coalition formation. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Econometric Society, and the European Economic Association, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He was president of the Econometric Society in 2003.