The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001
Awarded on: 2001-10-10
"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"
Affiliations:
- University of California – Berkeley, CA, USA
George A. Akerlof
Born: 1940-06-17 in New Haven, CT, USA
Gender: male
Field: American economist (born 1940)
Biography
George Arthur Akerlof 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." He is the husband of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen.