Samuel Zell Professor of the Economics of Risk
tborgers@umich.edu
Office Information:
337 Lorch Hall
611 Tappan Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Tenure-track;
Microeconomic Theory;
Economics
Education/Degree:
Habilitation, Universität Basel, 1993
Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1987
Diplom Volkswirt, Universität Köln, 1983
About
Tilman Börgers works on game theory and mechanism design and is the author of a textbook on mechanism design. He holds a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics. Before Michigan he was at University College London and at the University of Basel. He is a former managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies and a former lead editor of the Journal of Economic Theory. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a fellow of the Game Theory Society, and an Economic Theory fellow.
Research Area(s)
- Microeconomic Theory
- Game Theory
- Mechanism Design
- Welfare Economics
- Voting
