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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.
George A. AKERLOF. McCourt School, Georgetown. Verified email at georgetown.edu. macroeconomic and microeconomic theory. Articles Cited by Co-authors. Title. Sort. Sort by citations Sort by year Sort by title. Cited by. Cited by. ... L Ball, NG Mankiw, D Romer, GA Akerlof, A Rose, J Yellen, CA Sims. Brookings papers on economic activity 1988 (1), 1-82, 1988. 1489: 1988: Identity and schooling: Some lessons for the economics of education. GA Akerlof, RE Kranton. Journal of economic literature ...
My Swedish grandfather worked as a clerk for the Swedish railways in the Stockholm station. His avocation was painting, which absorbed more of his psychic energy than his career. At least some of the murals in the Stockholm station are a remnant of his handiwork. Beyond this my knowledge of my Swedish heritage is not expansive.
George A. Akerlof, 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.
Nov 14, 2003 · The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001 was awarded jointly to George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"
George Akerlof was educated at Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his PhD in 1966, the same year he became an assistant professor at Berkeley.
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...
George Akerlof was born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He studied at Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). While at Yale, he worked on the Yale Daily News, where he attempted to steer the magazine towards student related issues.
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.
Professor Akerlof is a 2001 recipient of the Alfred E. Nobel Prize in Economic Science; he was honored for his theory of asymmetric information and its effect on economic behavior. He is also the 2006 President of the American Economic Association.
