Michael Spence

Michael Spence
Spence in 2008
Born	(1943-11-07) November 7, 1943 (age 81)[2] Montclair, New Jersey, US
Academic career
Field	Microeconomics, labor economics
Institution	Harvard University Stanford University SDA Bocconi School of Management New York University
Alma mater	Harvard University, (Ph.D.) University of Oxford, (B.A.) Princeton University, (B.A.)
Doctoral advisor	Kenneth Arrow[1] Thomas Schelling[1]
Influences	Richard Zeckhauser
Contributions	Signaling theory
Awards	John Bates Clark Medal (1981) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (2001)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Academic background
Thesis	Market Signalling (1972)

Andrew Michael Spence (born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.^[3]

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.^[4][5]

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."