William Vickrey

William Vickrey

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1996

Barnard College - Columbia University

“for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information”

William Vickrey was a Canadian-born American economist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. He was affiliated with Columbia University.

Field
Business & Economics · Microeconomics
Lifespan
1914–1996