The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010
Awarded on: 2010-10-11
"for their analysis of markets with search frictions"
Affiliations:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Cambridge, MA, USA
Peter A. Diamond
Born: 1940-04-29 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American economist (born 1940)
Biography
Peter Arthur Diamond is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On June 6, 2011, he withdrew his nomination to serve on the Federal Reserve's board of governors, citing intractable Republican opposition for 14 months.