Michael Spence

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

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."