I was born in Budapest, Hungary, on May 29, 1920. The high school my parents chose for me was the Lutheran Gymnasium in Budapest, one of the best schools in Hungary, with such distinguished alumni as John von Neumann and Eugene Wigner. I was very happy in this school and received a superb...

Advanced information on the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2004

For more than two decades, the theory of markets with asymmetric information has been a vital and lively field of economic research. Today, models with imperfect information are indispensable instruments in the researcher's toolbox. Countless applications extend from traditional agricultural...

Jean Tirole delivered his Prize Lecture on 8 December 2014 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University.

Interview with 2014 Laureate in Economic Sciences Jean Tirole, 6 December 2014.

I was born on December 18, 1951 in the New York City borough of Queens. My parents, Ernest and Lillian, were both public high school teachers of a subject that is probably no longer taught, called Secretarial Studies, which focused on typing and taking dictation via two methods of shorthand...

Interview conducted on 6 December 2013.

My grandfather, Harlow Shapley, was a noted astronomer. He worked at the 100-inch telescope on Mt. Wilson in Pasadena, California, where he did some important work, most notably determining that the sun was not located at the center of the galaxy, but rather, out on the fringes. His first three...

Interview conducted on 6 December 2013.

Interview conducted on 6 December 2012.