Matthew O. Jackson

{{Short description|Economist, Stanford University}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Matthew O. Jackson

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| birth_date = 1962

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| field = Economics

| work_institution = Stanford University

| alma_mater = Stanford University

Princeton University

| doctoral_advisor = {{Plainlist|

• Darrell Duffie
• Dilip Mookherjee
• Robert B. Wilson

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| awards = Social Choice and Welfare Prize (2002)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2021)

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Matthew Owen Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute, and a fellow of CIFAR.{{cite web|url=http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/ |title=Home Page – Matthew O. Jackson |date= |accessdate=2013-02-20}}

Jackson's research concerns game theory, microeconomic theory, and the study of social and economic networks. Jackson was one of the founders of the study of networks in economics. His work has analyzed the formation of networks and the sources and effects of homophily in social relationships. He has also made important contributions to the study of how networks mediate access to jobs and information as well as the contagion of financial distress.{{Cite journal|last=Ravindran|first=Sandeep|date=2016-08-09|title=Profile of Matthew O. Jackson|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|language=en|volume=113|issue=32|pages=8888–8890|doi=10.1073/pnas.1610801113|issn=0027-8424|pmc=4987829|pmid=27457940|bibcode=2016PNAS..113.8888R |doi-access=free }}

He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1988, and has taught at Northwestern University and the California Institute of Technology.

He has served as co-editor of Games and Economic Behavior,{{cite web|url=http://www.journals.elsevier.com/games-and-economic-behavior/editorial-board/ |title=Games and Economic Behavior Editorial Board |date= |accessdate=2013-02-20}} the Review of Economic Design,{{cite web|url=https://www.springer.com/economics/journal/10058?detailsPage=editorialBoard |title=Review of Economic Design – incl. option to publish open access (Editorial Board) |date= |accessdate=2013-02-20}} and Econometrica.{{cite web|url=http://www.econometricsociety.org/editors.asp |title=Welcome to the website of The Econometric Society An International Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics |date= |accessdate=2013-02-20}} Jackson co-teaches a popular game theory course on Coursera.org,{{cite web|url=http://game-theory-class.org |title=Coursera.org |publisher=Game-theory-class.org |date= |accessdate=2013-02-20}} along with Kevin Leyton-Brown and Yoav Shoham.

Jackson has been honored with the Social Choice and Welfare Prize,{{cite web|url=http://www.unicaen.fr/recherche/mrsh/scw/prize |title=Prize | Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines |date= |accessdate=2013-02-20}} the B.E.Press Arrow Prize for Senior Economists,{{cite web |url=http://www.bepress.com/arrow.html |title=Berkeley Electronic Press |date= |accessdate=2013-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910173951/http://www.bepress.com/arrow.html |archive-date=2012-09-10 |url-status=dead }} and a Guggenheim Fellowship.{{cite web|url=http://www.caltech.edu/content/matthew-o-jackson-named-guggenheim-fellow |title=Matthew O. Jackson Named Guggenheim Fellow | Caltech |date=2005-04-18 |accessdate=2013-02-20}} He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.{{Cite web|last=Jackson|first=Matthew O.|title=CV – Matthew O. Jackson|url=https://web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/vita.pdf}} For 2021 he was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management.[https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/noticias/the-frontiers-of-knowledge-award-goes-to-matthew-jackson-for-illuminating-the-key-role-of-networks-in-the-transactions-of-economic-and-social-life/ BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2021]