Alvin E. Roth
Alvin E. Roth
Roth
Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 18, 1951) is an
American academic. He is the Craig and Susan Alvin Roth
McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University
and the Gund professor of economics and business
administration emeritus at Harvard University.[2] He
was President of the American Economic Association
in 2017.[3]
In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Born Alvin Eliot Roth
Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley "for the December 18, 1951
theory of stable allocations and the practice of market New York City, New York, U.S.
design".[6] Education Columbia University (BS)
Stanford University (PhD)
Children Aaron Roth
Biography
Academic career
Alvin Roth was born in the New York City borough of Field Game theory, market design,
Queens to Ernest and Lillian Roth, who were both experimental economics
public high school teachers and Jewish.[7] Roth Institution Stanford University
followed his brother Ted Roth in attending the Science Harvard University
Honors Program at Columbia University, which University of Pittsburgh
offered classes to junior high school and high school
Doctoral Robert B. Wilson
students on Saturdays and entered Columbia's
advisor
engineering school in the Fall of 1968 when he was 16,
Doctoral Muriel Niederle
without having graduated from high school.
students Georg Weizsäcker
Roth graduated from Columbia University's School of Parag Pathak[1]
Engineering and Applied Science in 1971 with a Fuhito Kojima
bachelor's degree in Operations Research. He then Contributions Market design
moved to Stanford University, receiving both his Awards Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
Master's and PhD also in Operations Research there in (1990)
1973 and 1974 respectively.[8] Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economic Sciences (2012)
After leaving Stanford, Roth went on to teach at the
Golden Goose Award (2013)
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, which he
Member of the National
left in 1982 to become the Andrew W. Mellon
Academy of Sciences (2013)
professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. Information ([Link]
While at Pittsburgh, he also served as a fellow in the ml) at IDEAS / RePEc
university's Center for Philosophy of Science and as a
Academic background
professor in the Katz Graduate School of Business.[9]
In 1998, Roth left to join the faculty at Harvard[10] Thesis Topics in Cooperative Game
where he remained until deciding to return to Stanford Theory ([Link]
in 2012.[11] In 2013 he became a full member of the om/docview/30273229
Stanford faculty and took emeritus status at Harvard.[2] 8/) (1974)
Academic Work
In October 2012, Roth was the co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together with Lloyd S.
Shapley, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences stated that it
awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize jointly to Roth and Shapley
"for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market Al Roth, Sydney Ideas lecture 2012
design."
Market Design
Roth made several fundamental contributions to market design since the 1990s on topics including kidney
exchange, school choice, medical residency match, entry-level job market for economists and other
markets. Describing the dynamism of market design, 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."[18]
Roth is also an active blogger on topics related to market design: he manages the Market Design Blog.
Kidney exchange
Roth did foundational theoretical work on kidney exchange along
with Tayfun Sonmez and Utku Unver, and later on with Itai
Ashlagi and other co-authors.[19][20] Roth, along with Tayfun
Sonmez and Utku Unver, were one of the first to note the
similarity between kidney exchange and one-sided matching
described by Lloyd Shapley and Herbert Scarf. They adapted the
David Gale's top-trading-cycle algorithm to allow the one-sided Roth (left), observing a kidney
matching with waiting-list options, and proposed efficient and transplantation made possible by
incentive-compatible chain selection rules. The same team kidney exchange.
subsequently showed that efficient outcomes with good incentive
properties can be found in computationally efficient ways when
only pairwise kidney exchanges are considered.
The program was designed to operate primarily through the use of two pairs of incompatible donors.
Each donor was incompatible with her partner but could be compatible with another donor who was
likewise incompatible with his partner. Francis Delmonico, a transplant surgeon at Harvard Medical
School, describes a typical situation,[23]
Because the National Organ Transplant Act forbids the creation of binding contracts for organ transplant,
steps in the procedure had to be performed roughly simultaneously. Two pairs of patients means four
operating rooms and four surgical teams acting in concert with each other. Hospitals and professionals in
the transplant community felt that the practical burden of three pairwise exchanges would be too large.[24]
While the original theoretical work discovered that an "efficient frontier" would be reached with
exchanges between three pairs of otherwise incompatible donors, it was determined that the goals of the
program would not be sacrificed by limiting exchanges to pairs of incompatible donors. A 12-party (6
donors and 6 recipients) kidney exchange was performed in April 2008.[25][26]
Roth and coauthors have continued to contribute to ethical discussions and to practical operational
designs that can facilitate global kidney chains. In 2021, a kidney exchange was conducted between Israel
and the UAE where Roth and his colleagues like Dr Michael Rees and Itai Ashlagi played key roles.[28]
School choice
Roth helped redesign mechanisms for matching students to New York City high schools and Boston
primary schools.
In 1990s, Roth redesigned the matching program to, among other things, produce stable matches
efficiently even with married couples.[36][37] Along with Elliott Peranson, Roth proposed a variation of
the applicant-proposing deferred-acceptance algorithm modified to accommodate couples by resolving
potential instabilities caused by the presence of couples sequentially, following the instability-chaining
algorithm proposed by Roth and John H. Vande Vate.[38] The NRMP adopted the new algorithm in 1997.
The algorithm is still in use in NRMP as of 2021. Moreover, it has been adopted in entry-level labor
markets for other organizations such as the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship
Centers.[39]
Organ Donation
In a series of papers with Judd Kessler, Roth investigates economic and psychological forces that
influence organ donation decisions.[40][41][42] They investigate how changes in the management of organ
waiting lists and donor registration programs might impact donations. A notable insight from this work
suggest that organ allocation policy giving priority on waiting lists to those who previously registered as
donors has a significant positive impact on registration. In another paper, Roth and Kessler found that
giving potential donors more opportunities to donate organs while providing them with more information
can increase registrations.
Around 1970, many departments of economics did not advertise assistant professor positions. Instead,
jobs were filled by word of mouth and through letters of inquiry, and the market was relatively thin. Since
1974 the AEA helped make the market thicker by publishing Job Openings for Economists (JOE),
initially as a hardcopy periodical and since 2002 exclusively online. The annual Allied Social Science
Associations January meetings also became a central venue for conducting interviews. By the 2000s, the
number of jobs and candidates had made fairly thick markets possible, and the market had to deal with
the congestion[44] caused by the many possibilities to be considered for both employers and applicants
alike.[45]
The work of the Committee resulted in the introduction of two market design interventions: First, in early
December prior to the January Allied Social Science Associations meeting, applicants have the option of
sending no more than two signals of special interest to employers through the AEA signaling service (htt
p://[Link]/joe/signal/). The signals are meant to let candidates credibly express interest in
employers, and to help employers identify candidates interested in their positions.[45] Second, during the
late stages of the interviewing and hiring processes, some employers may not have hired any of the
candidates they interviewed, and candidates may find that all the prospective employers with whom they
interviewed have hired someone else. To address this problem, in March, applicants still looking for jobs
and employers with unfilled jobs may indicate their continued availability on the AEA scramble website
([Link]
In a study of data from the initial four years of the signal and scramble mechanisms, Roth and coauthors
found that sending a signal increased the probability of receiving an interview by 6.8 percentage points,
on average. Moreover, they also found that at least 10 percent of the jobs listed in the scramble were
filled through the contacts facilitated by the scramble.[45]
Market Timing
Roth, along with Xiaolin Xing, wrote two important papers that extended our understanding of the timing
of transactions.[46][44] In one paper, they explored how strategic incentives can lead market participants to
cause unraveling when the hiring side of a market makes offers further in advance of employment to pre-
empt their competitors. In another, they studied the environment where transactions take time to evaluate
and complete, causing markets to be congested.
In a series of papers with Axel Ockenfels, Roth studied auction bidding behavior on eBay and found that
a very high proportion of the bids were submitted in the very last minute or seconds of the auction.[47][48]
They highlighted how eBay's design when the study was conducted, which included a fixed ending time,
gave bidders incentives to delay placing their bids, and they showed how sniping can be prevented in
auctions that end with a soft-close.
Repugnance
In an article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives titled "Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets"
Roth "introduced in the economics literature the concept of 'repugnance' for a transaction as the aversion
toward other individuals engaging in it, even if the parties directly involved benefit from that trade (i.e.
"There are some things no one should be allowed to do").[49] Repugnance considerations have important
consequences on the types of markets and transactions that we observe and, as such, they impose a
challenge for policy and market design."
Roth himself stated that: "We need to understand better and engage more with the phenomenon of
'repugnant transactions,' which, I will argue, often serves as an important constraint on markets and
market design." Roth has published on the topic across top economics, medical, social science,
philosophy, and ethics journals. A lot of Roth's focus in this area has been focused on the ethical
implications of kidney exchange and compensation for organ donors and their families. Roth has also
conducted a cross-jurisdiction study on relationships between repugnance and regulation of
transactions.[50]
The notion of repugnance has subsequently been explored in works that has attempted to understand the
origin of this repugnance for the market.[51]
Experimental Economics
Roth is one of the early pioneers of experimental economics and has made several fundamental
contributions to the field starting from the early 1970s. Roth's approach to experiments expanded the
possibilities of economic experiments could be and ushered in an approach open to influence by other
social sciences as well as game theory. Unlike earlier experimental work by Vernon Smith, Charles Plott,
and others, Roth and his coauthors appealed to sociological and psychological concepts to explain how
subjects deviated from rationally predicted outcomes right from the start.[52] His early work "was
rigorous in its specification of what economic models predicted and was rooted in formal economic
theories, yet provided accurate and insightful descriptions of actual behavior based on psychology and
sociology."[53] The Scientific Background document for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics states:
Roth describes how laboratory experiments and field observations can interact with game
theory, thereby establishing economics as a more satisfactory empirical science.
Besides contributing to some laboratory game designs that has become standard (for example, along with
his early collaborator the psychologist J. Keith Murnighan, Roth designed a repeated-game experiment in
which there was a fixed probability that each period of play would be the last, providing researchers with
a tool to study infinitely repeated games in the laboratory).[54][55] Roth has also outlined methodological
issues that both producers and consumers of experimental research must consider in interpreting
experimental results and published the full datasets of his experiments while the field was still in its
nascency, laying the groundwork for much of the metascience debates regarding experiments in
economics.[56]
Roth also edited two volumes of the Handbook of Experimental Economics with John Kagel.[57]
Bargaining
Along with some of his early collaborators in experimental economics, most notably Michael Malouf and
J. Keith Murnighan, tested the predictions of cooperative bargaining theory in the laboratory.[58][59] This
work provided important empirical evidence to support the claim that cooperative bargaining models
were useful to predict the qualitative effects of changes in risk aversion. Some of these experiments also
highlighted the importance of focal-point effects and fairness concerns. Roth and Murnighan found that
information asymmetry and communication structure are critical determinants of bargaining outcomes,
and that while risk averse bargainers make concessions to resolve their aversion to risk, this is less
harmful than what conventional economics predict in predictable contexts. Roth has also conducted a
series of experiments to test the predictions of non-cooperative bargaining theory in collaboration with
Jack Ochs.
Roth, along with Vesna Prasnikar, Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara, and Shmuel Zamir, published an influential
study to investigate bargaining across four different countries (Israel, Japan, USA, and the former
Yugoslavia).[60] This paper is one of the first experimental studies in economics to tackle cultural
differences with data, and found no cultural differences in the markets, all of which converged to the
predicted subgame perfect outcome. This influential paper has been selected one of the top 20 papers in
experimental economics.[61]
Reinforcement Learning
A series of papers by Roth with Ido Erev demonstrates that the main deviations from rational choice in
repeated choice tasks (including extensive form games, games with unique mixed strategy equilibrium,
and decisions under uncertainty) can be predicted with surprisingly simple learning models.[62]
This line of research has been furthered with Roth's work with Muriel Niederle that helped shed light on
how a matching market can collapse and its consequences, taking inspiration from the collapse of the
gastroenterology fellowship in the United States.[64] This and other work helped the American
Gastroenterology Association reintroduce a deferred acceptance algorithm in 2006.[65] Roth has also used
experiments to evaluate the decision architecture and implications of matching markets including that of
law clerk matching. Roth had also used laboratory experiments to study the regulation of transplant
centers and organ procurement organizations with Alex Chan.[66]
Game Theory
Roth made several fundamental contributions to game theory on topics including Shapley Value,
axiomatic bargaining, and matching theory.
Shapley Value
Roth introduced a utility perspective on the Shapley value.[67][68] Roth's key contribution is to show that
a value can be viewed to represent a valuation or utility of a player regarding a cooperative interactive
decision situation in which the player participates. Under this interpretation, a cooperative game describes
the potential values that can be generated by the various coalitions of which the player is a member. This
player evaluates this situation using a utility function, and the Shapley value can be interpreted as such a
utility function – the Shapley value is the specific von Neumann–Morgenstern expected utility function
that is neutral to ordinary as well as strategic risk.
Axiomatic Bargaining
In 1978 Roth took a semester leave at the Economics Department at Stanford while being a faculty
member at the University of Illinois, where he taught a course whose lecture notes became a textbook on
axiomatic models of bargaining.[69] Some economists have studied the effects of risk aversion on the
bargaining solution. Compare two similar bargaining problems A and B, where the feasible space and the
utility of player 1 remain fixed, but the utility of player 2 is different: player 2 is more risk-averse in A
than in B. Then, the payoff of player 2 in the Nash bargaining solution is smaller in A than in B.
However, this is true only if the outcome itself is certain; if the outcome is risky, then a risk-averse player
may get a better deal as proved by Roth and Uriel Rothblum.[70]
Matching Theory
Roth has made several fundamental contributions to the theory of matching. Prominent examples
include:
The core of housing market coincides with the unique competitive allocation: Roth and Postlewaite have
shown that in markets with indivisible goods and private endowments ("housing markets") the core
coincides with the unique competitive allocation.[71] Their construction uses David Gale's top-trading-
cycle algorithm (TTC), which was also used by Shapley and Scarf to prove the existence of a competitive
allocation.[72]
The rural hospital theorem, that states that the same positions are filled in all stable matchings, and that
the set of matched agents is identical in all stable matchings.[73][74] This theorem refuted suggestions that
changing the way the National Residency Match Program treats medical graduates and hospitals may
change the number of doctors assigned to rural hospitals.
Strategy-proofness of deferred acceptance and top-trading-cycle. Roth has shown that student-proposing
deferred acceptance is weakly (group) strategy-proof – truthful reporting to the student-proposing
deferred acceptance mechanism is a weakly dominant strategy and furthermore it cannot strictly benefit
any coalition of manipulators.[75] The same paper also shows that no stable matching mechanism makes
truthful reporting dominant for both sides of the market. He was also the first to show that top-trading-
cycle is strategy-proof.
In addition to these (and many other) contributions, Roth has co-authored with Marilda Sotomayor a book
on two-sided matching.[76] This book organized the knowledge that was available at that time, and set the
agenda for research in matching theory in the following decades.
Teaching
Roth has taught a variety of courses in Economics. In the early 2000s, together with Paul Milgrom, Roth
taught the first graduate course on Market Design, which brought together topics on auctions, matching,
and other related areas. The market design course has served as a basis for many similar graduate courses
across the US and around the world, and has helped jump-start the field of Market Design.
Over his career, he had advised over four dozen doctoral students and about the same number of post-
doctoral fellows. Many of his students have gone on to prolific research careers, and many has won major
awards in the field including a John Bates Clark Medalist, a Nakahara Prize laureate, a Gottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz Prize winner and an Oskar-Morgenstern Medalist. Roth has received teaching awards from
University of Illinois, University of Pittsburgh, and Harvard University.
Personal life
Roth is married to Dr Emilie Roth and has two sons.[8] Emilie Roth is a psychologist specialized in
cognitive engineering. His elder son, Aaron Roth, is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and
Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania.[77] As of 2023, his younger son, Ben Roth, is an
associate professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.[78]
Books
Roth is the author of numerous scholarly articles, books, and other publications. A selection:
Journal articles
Roth has published over 200 articles in peer reviewed journals.[79] According to Google Scholar, the most
widely cited have been:
Erev, Ido; Roth, Alvin E. (1998). "Predicting how people play games: Reinforcement learning
in experimental games with unique, mixed strategy equilibria". American Economic Review.
88 (4): 848–881. JSTOR 117009 ([Link]
Roth, Alvin E.; Erev, Ido (1995). "Learning in extensive-form games: Experimental data and
simple dynamic models in the intermediate term". Games and Economic Behavior. 8 (1):
164–212. doi:10.1016/S0899-8256(05)80020-X ([Link]
805%2980020-X).
Roth, Alvin E.; Prasnikar, Vesna; Okuno-Fujiwara, Masahiro; Zamir, Shmuel (1991).
"Bargaining and Market Behavior in Jerusalem, Ljubljana, Pittsburgh, and Tokyo: An
Experimental Study". American Economic Review. 81 (5): 1068–1095. JSTOR 2006907 (htt
ps://[Link]/stable/2006907).
Roth, Alvin E. (1984). "The Evolution of the Labor Market for Medical Interns and Residents:
A Case Study in Game Theory" ([Link]
[Link]) (PDF). Journal of Political Economy. 92 (6): 991–1016. doi:10.1086/261272 ([Link]
[Link]/10.1086%2F261272). JSTOR 1831989 ([Link]
S2CID 1360205 ([Link]
Roth, Alvin E.; Ockenfels, Axel (2002). "Last-Minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending
Second-Price Auctions: Evidence from eBay and Amazon Auctions on the Internet".
American Economic Review. 92 (4): 1093–1103. doi:10.1257/00028280260344632 (https://
[Link]/10.1257%2F00028280260344632). JSTOR 3083298 ([Link]
83298).
Roth, Alvin E. (2002). "The Economist as Engineer: Game Theory, Experimentation, and
Computation as Tools for Design Economics". Econometrica. 70 (4): 1341–1378.
doi:10.1111/1468-0262.00335 ([Link]
JSTOR 3082001 ([Link]
Roth, Alvin E. (1982). "The Economics of Matching: Stability and Incentives". Mathematics
of Operations Research. 7 (4): 617–628. doi:10.1287/moor.7.4.617 ([Link]
7%2Fmoor.7.4.617).
Roth, Alvin E.; Peranson, Elliott (1999). "The Redesign of the Matching Market for American
Physicians: Some Engineering Aspects of Economic Design" ([Link]
[Link]) (PDF). American Economic Review. 89 (4): 748–780. doi:10.1257/aer.89.4.748 (h
ttps://[Link]/10.1257%2Faer.89.4.748). JSTOR 117158 ([Link]
8). PMID 29115787 ([Link] S2CID 14904630 (https://
[Link]/CorpusID:14904630).
Roth, Alvin E.; Sönmez, Tayfun; Ünver, M. Utku (2004). "Kidney Exchange" ([Link]
[Link]/urn-3:[Link]). The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 119 (2): 457–
488. doi:10.1162/0033553041382157 ([Link]
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Pathak, Parag A.; Roth, Alvin E. (2005). "The New York City High
School Match" ([Link] American Economic
Review. 95 (2): 364–367. doi:10.1257/000282805774670167 ([Link]
0282805774670167).
Haruvy, Ernan; Roth, Alvin E.; Ünver, M. Utku (2006). "The dynamics of law clerk matching:
An experimental and computational investigation of proposals for reform of the market" (http
s://[Link]/10.1016/[Link].2005.02.002). Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 30 (3):
457–486. doi:10.1016/[Link].2005.02.002 ([Link]
See also
Economics portal
Biography portal
Market design
Experimental economics
Repugnant market
Repugnancy costs
List of Jewish Nobel laureates
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27. Rees, M. A.; Paloyo, S. R.; Roth, A. E.; Krawiec, K. D.; Ekwenna, O.; Marsh, C. L.; Wenig,
A. J.; Dunn, T. B. (September 2017). "Global kidney exchange: Financially incompatible
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33. Roth noted that the West Zone Parents Group at Yahoo Groups, among others, devoted
considerable time and effort to estimating capacity for schools in the area and disseminated
recommendations on the basis of those estimates.
34. D. Gale and L. S. Shapley: "College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage", American
Mathematical Monthly 69, 9–14, 1962.
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36. Roth, Alvin E. Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open
Questions, International Journal of Game Theory, Special Issue in Honor of David Gale on
his 85th birthday, 36, March 2008, 537–569.
37. Sara Robinson. "Tweaking the Math to Make Happier Medical Marriages" ([Link]
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html). in: The New York Times. August 24, 2004.
38. Roth, Alvin E.; Vate, John H. Vande (November 1990). "Random Paths to Stability in Two-
Sided Matching" ([Link] Econometrica. 58 (6): 1475.
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39. Kojima, Fuhito; Pathak, Parag; Roth, Alvin (May 2010). "Matching with Couples: Stability
and Incentives in Large Markets" ([Link] Cambridge, MA.
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40. Kessler, Judd; Roth, Alvin (August 2011). "Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to
Donate" ([Link] Cambridge, MA. doi:10.3386/w17324 (https://
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41. Kessler, Judd; Roth, Alvin (August 2014). "Don't Take 'No' For An Answer: An Experiment
With Actual Organ Donor Registrations" ([Link] Cambridge,
MA. doi:10.3386/w20378 ([Link] S2CID 70822441 ([Link]
[Link]/CorpusID:70822441). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires
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42. Stoler, Avraham; Kessler, Judd B.; Ashkenazi, Tamar; Roth, Alvin E.; Lavee, Jacob (2016-
04-29). "Incentivizing Organ Donor Registrations with Organ Allocation Priority" ([Link]
[Link]/10.1002/hec.3328). Health Economics. 26 (4): 500–510. doi:10.1002/hec.3328 (http
s://[Link]/10.1002%2Fhec.3328). ISSN 1057-9230 ([Link]
230). PMID 27125490 ([Link] S2CID 11147048 (http
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43. Roth, Alvin (October 2007). "What Have We Learned From Market Design?" ([Link]
10.3386%2Fw13530). Cambridge, MA. doi:10.3386/w13530 ([Link]
3530). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
44. Roth, Alvin E.; Xing, Xiaolin (April 1997). "Turnaround Time and Bottlenecks in Market
Clearing: Decentralized Matching in the Market for Clinical Psychologists" ([Link]
10.1086/262074). Journal of Political Economy. 105 (2): 284–329. doi:10.1086/262074 (http
s://[Link]/10.1086%2F262074). ISSN 0022-3808 ([Link]
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45. Coles, Peter; Cawley, John; Levine, Phillip B; Niederle, Muriel; Roth, Alvin E; Siegfried, John
J (2010-11-01). "The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective" (http
s://[Link]/10.1257%2Fjep.24.4.187). Journal of Economic Perspectives. 24 (4): 187–206.
doi:10.1257/jep.24.4.187 ([Link] ISSN 0895-3309 (http
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46. Roth, Alvin E. (1994). Jumping the gun : imperfections and institutions related to the timing
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47. Roth, Alvin E; Ockenfels, Axel (2002-08-01). "Last-Minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending
Second-Price Auctions: Evidence from eBay and Amazon Auctions on the Internet" ([Link]
[Link]/10.1257/00028280260344632). American Economic Review. 92 (4): 1093–1103.
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48. Ockenfels, Axel; Roth, Alvin E. (2003). "Late and Multiple Bidding in Second Price Internet
Auctions: Theory and Evidence Concerning Different Rules for Ending an Auction" ([Link]
[Link]/10.2139/ssrn.432900). SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.432900 (https://
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50. Roth, Alvin E.; Wang, Stephanie W. (2020-07-29). "Popular repugnance contrasts with legal
bans on controversial markets" ([Link]
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R). doi:10.1073/pnas.2005828117 ([Link]
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[Link]/pmc/articles/PMC7443974). PMID 32727903 ([Link]
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51. Brisset, Nicolas (2022-12-09). "What Do We Learn from Market Design? On the Moral
Foundations of Repugnance" ([Link]
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doi:10.3917/rpec.222.0029 ([Link] ISSN 1376-0971 (ht
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52. Roth, Alvin E.; Malouf, Michael W.K.; Murnighan, [Link] (June 1981). "Sociological versus
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53. Luca, Michael (3 March 2020). The power of experiments : decision making in a data-driven
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Dilemma Games" ([Link] Journal of Conflict
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2F0022002783027002004). ISSN 0022-0027 ([Link]
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the prisoner's dilemma" ([Link] Journal of
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org/10.1016%2F0022-2496%2878%2990030-5). ISSN 0022-2496 ([Link]
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56. Roth, Alvin E. (1994), "Lets Keep the Con out of Experimental Econ.: A Methodological
Note" ([Link] Experimental Economics,
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58. Murnighan, J. Keith; Roth, Alvin E.; Schoumaker, Francoise (March 1988). "Risk aversion in
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59. Malouf, Michael W.K.; Roth, Alvin E. (June 1981). "Disagreement in Bargaining" ([Link]
[Link]/10.1177/002200278102500206). Journal of Conflict Resolution. 25 (2): 329–348.
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60. Falk, Armin (2021-07-12), "Bargaining and market behavior in Jerusalem, Ljubljana,
Pittsburgh, and Tokyo: An experimental study (by Alvin E. Roth, Vesna Prasnikar, Masahiro
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62. Roth, Alvin E.; Erev, Ido (January 1995). "Learning in extensive-form games: Experimental
data and simple dynamic models in the intermediate term" ([Link]
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Matching Markets: A Laboratory Experiment Motivated by A Natural Experiments*" ([Link]
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65. Niederle, Muriel; Roth, Alvin E. (August 2004). "The gastroenterology fellowship Match: How
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71. Roth, Alvin E.; Postlewaite, Andrew (August 1977). "Weak versus strong domination in a
market with indivisible goods" ([Link] Journal of
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g/10.1016%2F0304-4068%2877%2990004-0). ISSN 0304-4068 ([Link]
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73. Roth, Alvin E. (December 1984). "The Evolution of the Labor Market for Medical Interns and
Residents: A Case Study in Game Theory" ([Link] Journal of
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74. Roth, Alvin E. (March 1986). "On the Allocation of Residents to Rural Hospitals: A General
Property of Two-Sided Matching Markets" ([Link]
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[Link]/stable/1913160).
75. Roth, Alvin E. (January 1982). "Incentive compatibility in a market with indivisible goods" (htt
ps://[Link]/10.1016/0165-1765(82)90003-9). Economics Letters. 9 (2): 127–132.
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76. Roth, Alvin E.; Oliveira Sotomayor, Marilda A.; Roth, Alvin E.; Sotomayor, Marilda A. Oliveira
(1990), "Epilogue" ([Link] Two-Sided Matching,
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External links
Alvin E. Roth ([Link]
[Link]?facInfo=bio&facEmId=aroth) at Harvard Business School
Compilation of research and press coverage ([Link]
[Link] at Al Roth's game theory, experimental
economics, and market design page.
Video - Alvin E. Roth (2014) : Repugnant Markets and Prohibited Transactions ([Link]
[Link]/videos/33959/alvin-roth/meeting-2014-eco) at the Lindau Nobel
Laureate Meeting, August 20, 2014
Appearances ([Link] on C-SPAN
Alvin E. Roth ([Link] on [Link]