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George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
Biographical. Family background. I was born on June 17, 1940 in New Haven, Connecticut. My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. They had met ten years earlier at a departmental picnic when my mother had been a chemistry graduate student at Yale. My brother, Carl, was two years older.
George A. Akerlof. Daniel E. Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics; Nobel Laureate 2001. Fields. Macroeconomics, Monetary theory, Behavioral Economics. Current Status. Emeritus. PhD. Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966. Research Interests.
George A. Akerlof. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001. Born: 17 June 1940, New Haven, CT, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Prize motivation: “for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information”. Prize share: 1/3.
Sep 7, 2022 · George Akerlof is a New Keynesian economist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley. He is renowned for his 1970 paper, The Market for Lemons, Quality Uncertainty and the Market...
Nov 14, 2003 · by George A. Akerlof 2001 Laureate in Economics. I wrote “The Market for ‘Lemons,'” (a 13-page paper for which I was awarded the Prize in Economics) during my first year as assistant professor at Berkeley, in 1966-67. * “Lemons” deals with a problem as old as markets themselves.
Apr 25, 2024 · George A. Akerlof is an American economist who, with A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 for laying the foundation for the theory of markets with asymmetric information.
George Akerlof is University Professor at Georgetown. His research is based in economics, but it often draws from other disciplines, including psychology, anthropology, and sociology. He played an important role in the development of behavioral economics.
BERKELEY — George A. Akerlof, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was named the 2001 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in economic sciences today (10/10/01). It is the second consecutive year in which the Nobel has gone to a UC Berkeley economist.
Akerlof earned his B.A. in economics at Yale in 1962 and his Ph.D. in economics at MIT in 1966. For most of his professional life, he has been an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
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