Michael Spence

1943 -

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Magdalen College, University of Toronto, Princeton University, University of Oxford, Harvard University, University of Toronto Schools

occupation: economist, university teacher, scientist, professor, international forum participant

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, John Bates Clark Medal, Harvard Centennial Medal, Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Rhodes Scholarship, honorary doctorate at the Laval University

influenced by: Kenneth Arrow, Thomas Schelling

official website: www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/michael-spence

Andrew Michael Spence (born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate. 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. 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." Source: Wikipedia (en)