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George Arthur Akerlof (* 17. Juni 1940 in New Haven, Connecticut) ist ein US-amerikanischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Träger des Wirtschaftsnobelpreises 2001. Akerlof lehrt als Professor für Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Georgetown University .
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.
The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism ist der Titel eines Aufsatzes des US-amerikanischen Wirtschaftswissenschaftlers George A. Akerlof aus dem Jahre 1970, der sich mit der Thematik der asymmetrischen Information zwischen zwei oder mehr Vertragsparteien befasst.
Biographical. I was born on June 17, 1940 in New Haven, Connecticut. My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. They had met ten years earlier at a departmental picnic when my mother had been a chemistry graduate student at Yale. My brother, Carl, was two years older. My father, who was born in Sweden in 1898, had come ...
14. Nov. 2003 · by George A. Akerlof 2001 Laureate in Economics. I wrote “The Market for ‘Lemons,'” (a 13-page paper for which I was awarded the Prize in Economics) during my first year as assistant professor at Berkeley, in 1966-67. * “Lemons” deals with a problem as old as markets themselves.
He became a full professor in 1978.Professor Akerlof is a 2001 recipient of the Alfred E. Nobel Prize in Economic Science; he was honored for his theory of asymmetric information and its effect on economic behavior. He is also the 2006 President of the American Economic Association.
The foundations for this theory were established in the 1970s by three researchers: George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz. They receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2001, “for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information”.
