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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Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Princeton University Press (2015), ISBNÂ 978-0-691-16831-9...
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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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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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