Robert Gibbons (economist)

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Robert Gibbons
Born (1958-06-22) June 22, 1958 (age 65)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
Institution Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma mater Stanford Graduate School of Business
Cambridge University
Harvard University
Doctoral
advisor
David M. Kreps
Robert B. Wilson
Doctoral
students
Pierre Azoulay, Daniel Barron, David Chan, Albert Choi, Florian Ederer, Nicola Lacetera, Michael Powell, Douglas Staiger [1]
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Robert S. Gibbons (born June 22, 1958) is an American economist, currently the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [2] [3] He launched the Working Group on Organizational Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2002, and was its director until 2022. [4]

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  2. "Robert Gibbons". mit.edu. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
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  4. "Sadun to Direct Working Group on Organizational Economics". NBER. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  5. Robert Gibbons (13 July 1992). Game Theory for Applied Economists. Princeton University Press. ISBN   1-4008-3588-7.