George Akerlof
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. Akerlof was awarded the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, jointly with Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz, "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information."
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| Born | George Arthur Akerlof June 17, 1940 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Education | Yale University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
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| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Carl W. Akerlof (brother) |
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| Institution | Georgetown University London School of Economics University of California, Berkeley |
| School or tradition | New Keynesian economics |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Solow |
| Doctoral students | Charles Engel Adriana Kugler |
| Influences | John Maynard Keynes |
| Contributions | Information asymmetry Efficiency wages |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) |
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