NBER profile: Alvin Roth.

• Position: National Bureau of Economic Research - Brief article

Al Roth, who shared the 2012 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with Lloyd Shapley, is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Labor Studies and a member of the NBER's Working Group on Market Design. He is also the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and in the Harvard Business School. In 2013, he will join the Stanford Economics Department.

Roth's research and teaching interests focus on game theory, experimental economics, and market design. He has studied and participated in the design of the National Resident Matching Program, through which approximately 20,000 doctors a year find their first employment as residents at American hospitals. He also helped to design the...