Alvin Roth
American economist and expert in market design. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2012 jointly with Lloyd Shapley. He led the redesign of the algorithm used by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) in the United States.
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Lloyd Shapley won the Nobel Prize in Economics jointly with Alvin Roth for his contributions to game theory and matching theory.
The U.S. National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) has been operating since 1952 and introduced an improved version of the Gale-Shapley algorithm in 1998 with the participation of Alvin Roth.
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Lloyd Shapley won the Nobel Prize in Economics jointly with Alvin Roth for his contributions to game theory and matching theory.
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