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...
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Information asymmetry (section Akerlof)
George Akerlof's paper The Market for Lemons introduced a model to help explain a variety of market outcomes when quality is uncertain. Akerlof's primary...
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asymmetric information in markets. The paper was written in 1970 by George Akerlof and published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. The paper's findings...
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the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. Four of his PhD students, George Akerlof, Joseph Stiglitz, Peter Diamond, and William Nordhaus, later received...
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follow-up to their Think Small advertising campaign for VW. Economist George Akerlof in his 1970 paper "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the...
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November 25, 2020. Retrieved September 30, 2013. Akerlof, George (October 10, 2001). "George A. Akerlof Biographical". nobelprize.org. Archived from the...
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is the market for used cars with hidden flaws, also known as lemons. George Akerlof in his 1970 paper, "The Market for 'Lemons'", highlights the effect...
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Retrieved 2021-10-22. "The Market for Lemons", 1970 paper by the economist George Akerlof Interview with John J. Woodcock III of West Hartford, Connecticut. Woodcock...
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Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Princeton University Press (2015), ISBN 978-0-691-16831-9...
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Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (2009) is a book by economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller written to promote the understanding of the role...
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Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology Discrete choice models 2001 George Akerlof (b. 1940) United States "for their analyses of markets with information...
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George Joseph Stigler (/ˈstɪɡlər/; January 17, 1911 – December 1, 1991) was an American economist. He was the 1982 laureate in Nobel Memorial Prize in...
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selection is George Akerlof's The Market for Lemons. The most common example of the Lemons Market is in the automobile industry. As suggested by Akerlof, there...
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William Akerlof (born March 5, 1938) is an American particle physicist and astrophysicist. A professor of physics at the University of Michigan, Akerlof initiated...
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identity economics was first formulated by Nobel Prize–winning economist George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton in their article "Economics and Identity," published...
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significant welfare benefits from macroeconomic stabilization. In 1985 George Akerlof (1940–) and Janet Yellen (1946–) published menu costs arguments showing...
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"intrinsic motivation by Uri Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini and "identity" by George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton assumes that agents derive utility from adopting...
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rigidity was simultaneously put forward by several economists in 1985–86. George Akerlof and Janet Yellen put forward the idea that due to bounded rationality...
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theologian John Haught, social activistd Chai Feldblum, Nobel laureate George Akerlof, writer and human rights advocate Carolyn Forché, award-winning literary...
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between low-levels of inflation and unemployment. Work by George Akerlof, William Dickens, and George Perry, implies that if inflation is reduced from two...
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of California at Berkeley, Ph.D.; her advisors were Nobel laureate George Akerlof, Nada Eissa, and David K. Levine. Kugler was Vice-Provost for Faculty...
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John Maynard Keynes (category Barons created by George VI)
Keynesian government intervention to mitigate the financial crisis include George Akerlof, J. Bradford DeLong, Robert Reich and Joseph Stiglitz. Newspapers and...
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(26 November 2010) Archived 15 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine Akerlof, George A. (2007). "The Missing Motivation in Macroeconomics" (PDF). American...
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Institution. Robert Lucas Jr., 1995 Nobel Prize in Economics winner. George Akerlof, 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences winner, known for his...
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Berkeley (Ph.D.) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A.) Doctoral advisor Jeffrey Frankel George Akerlof Janet Yellen Information at IDEAS / RePEc...
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University of California, Berkeley. Galbraith was taught economics by Professor George Martin Peterson, and together they wrote an economics paper titled "The...
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Wikipedia are listed here. Thomas Attwood Sir William Ashley B. R. Ambedkar George Akerlof Kenneth Arrow Maurice Allais Robert Aumann Edith Abbott (1876–1957)...
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appeared being called New Keynesian economists, including among others George Akerlof, Janet Yellen, Gregory Mankiw and Olivier Blanchard. They adopted the...
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to field experimentation in economics, with Nobel laureate economist George Akerlof and noted law professor Cass Sunstein writing that "List has done more...
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Hartwell; Tim Hunt; Paul Nurse V. S. Naipaul United Nations; Kofi Annan George Akerlof; Michael Spence; Joseph Stiglitz 2002 Riccardo Giacconi; Raymond Davis...
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