William Vickrey

William Vickrey (June 21, 1914, Victoria, British Columbia - October 11, 1996, New York State) was a Columbia University professor, who was awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He died three days after the announcement, and was awarded the prize posthumously.

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Vickrey was awarded the prize jointly with James Mirrlees for research into the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. An example of this is the situation where for instance, the insured know more about their health than their insurer.

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He also did important work in congestion pricing, the idea that roads and other services should be priced so that users see the costs that arise from the service being fully used when there is still demand. Congestion pricing gives a signal to users to adjust their behaviour or to investors to expand the service in order to remove the constraint. His theory was later partially put into action in the City of London (England).

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The Vickrey auction is named after him.

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June 21: June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. This day usually marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere, and thus is the day of the year with the longest hours of daylight ...

1914: 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. (see link for calendar)...

Victoria, British Columbia: :This article refers to the city of Victoria. Information on Greater Victoria can be found in the Greater Victoria article....

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