• William Spencer Vickrey (21 June 1914 – 11 October 1996) was a Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate. He was a lifelong faculty...
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    A Vickrey auction or sealed-bid second-price auction (SBSPA) is a type of sealed-bid auction. Bidders submit written bids without knowing the bid of the...
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    names. It is a generalization of a Vickrey auction for multiple items. The auction is named after William Vickrey, Edward H. Clarke, and Theodore Groves...
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  • politician Robert Vickrey (1926–2011), American painter William Vickrey (1914–1996), Canadian economist Vickrey auction, type of auction Vickrey–Clarke–Groves...
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    experiment had already been described earlier in social choice by William Vickrey and John Harsanyi, who independently derived proofs showing a rational...
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    Joan Robinson G. L. S. Shackle Pavlina R. Tcherneva Anthony Thirlwall William Vickrey Sidney Weintraub L. Randall Wray New Keynesians George Akerlof Ben...
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    the foundations of mechanism design theory." The related works of William Vickrey that established the field earned him the 1996 Nobel prize. One person...
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    Pasinetti Joan Robinson George Shackle Anthony Thirlwall Fernando Vianello William Vickrey L. Randall Wray Dimitri B. Papadimitriou Sidney Weintraub Disequilibrium...
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  • paper "Counterspeculation, Auctions, and Competitive Sealed Tenders", William Vickrey showed that if preferences are restricted to the case of quasi-linear...
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    most memorable students. She later described Yale professors Tobin and William Brainard as "lifelong mentors" who laid the intellectual groundwork for...
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