Who did Alvin E. Roth share his 2012 Nobel Prize with?
Robert Aumann
John Nash
Lloyd Shapley
Roger Myerson
Answer
Lloyd Shapley and Alvin E. Roth shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on Theory of stable matchings, which has had applications in areas such as college admissions, organ transplantation, and the allocation of jobs. Shapley developed the core concept of stable matchings, while Roth developed algorithms for finding stable matchings in large and complex markets.
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