Michael Spence

Michael Spence
Spence in 2008
Born (1943-11-07) November 7, 1943 (age 81)[2]
Academic career
FieldMicroeconomics, labor economics
InstitutionHarvard University
Stanford University
SDA Bocconi School of Management
New York University
Alma materHarvard University, (Ph.D.)
University of Oxford, (B.A.)
Princeton University, (B.A.)
Doctoral
advisor
Kenneth Arrow[1]
Thomas Schelling[1]
InfluencesRichard Zeckhauser
ContributionsSignaling theory
AwardsJohn Bates Clark Medal (1981)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (2001)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Academic background
ThesisMarket Signalling (1972)

Andrew Michael Spence (born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.[3]

Spence is the William R. Berkley Professor in Economics and Business at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and the Philip H. Knight Professor of Management, Emeritus, and Dean, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.[4][5]

Together with George A. Akerlof and Joseph E. Stiglitz, Spence is a co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information."

  1. ^ a b Signaling in Retrospect and the Informational Structure of Markets Nobel Lecture Retrieved September 12, 2016.
  2. ^ "A. Michael Spence – Facts". NobelPrize.org.
  3. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  4. ^ Economics, -William R. Berkley Professor in; Business. "NYU Stern - A. Spence - William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business". www.stern.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-12. {{cite web}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
  5. ^ "A. Michael Spence". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved 2020-05-12.