Information

Membership Number: FCA1215

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Social Sciences

Corresponding Email: marildas@usp.br

Homepage(s): http://www.abc.org.br/membro/marilda-antonia-de-oliveira-sotomayor/  

Present and Previous Positions

CNPq researcher and retired professor at UFRJ and USP

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Mathematical economist and Game theorist

Marilda Sotomayor is a Brazilian mathematical economist and game theorist well known for her leading role in the development of methods for the analysis of matching markets, strategic behavior, equilibrium in economic games, and market design. 

Her work on two-sided matching studied the stability of outcomes such as those where workers match with firms, buyers match with sellers, students match with colleges, and individuals match with partners. Her work on auctions provided mechanisms to achieve optimal outcomes.  Her work has facilitated the study of the effects that different rules and constraints generate on the welfare of individuals through the resulting outcomes.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences

Member of Brazilian Society of Econometrics

Member of Brazilian Society of Mathematics

Elected fellow of the Econometric Society in 2003

International honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0H15WtYAAAAJ 

Marilda has written about 50 papers and one book, which made her a well-known researcher, internationally and nationally. However, her contributions to the scientific community go well beyond her writings. She has served as Associate Editor of Econometrica and the Brazilian Review of Econometrics and as guest Editor of the International Journal of Game Theory for the issue “A collection of papers dedicated to David Gale on the occasion of his 85th birthday,” published in 2008.

Other Information

https://www.amacad.org/person/marilda-antonia-de-oliveira-sotomayor