Andrei Shleifer

Andrei Shleifer
Born (1961-02-20) February 20, 1961 (age 63)
NationalityRussian American
Academic career
InstitutionHarvard University
University of Chicago
FieldBehavioral finance
Law and economics
Development economics
Alma materMIT
Harvard University
Doctoral
advisor
Peter A. Diamond[1]
Franklin M. Fisher[1]
Doctoral
students
Sendhil Mullainathan
Matthew Gentzkow
Jesse Shapiro
Emily Oster
Ulrike Malmendier
John Friedman
InfluencesLawrence Summers
Milton Friedman[2]
ContributionsLegal origins theory
Big push model
AwardsJohn Bates Clark Medal (1999)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Andrei Shleifer (/ˈʃlfər/ SHLY-fər; born February 20, 1961) is a Russian-American economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1991. Shleifer was awarded the biennial John Bates Clark Medal in 1999 for his seminal works in three fields: corporate finance (corporate governance, law and finance), the economics of financial markets (deviations from efficient markets), and the economics of transition.

IDEAS/RePEc ranked him as the second top economist in the world in 2011,[3] and the top economist in 2024.[4] He is also listed as #1 on the list of "Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business".[5] On Google Scholar, as of 2024 he had over 400,000 citations.[6]

  1. ^ a b Shleifer, Andrei (1986). The business cycle and the stock market (PDF) (PhD). MIT. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  2. ^ Andrei Shleifer. "The Age of Milton Friedman". Retrieved 2013-10-19.
  3. ^ "Economist Rankings at IDEAS". Ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
  4. ^ "Economist Rankings | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  5. ^ "Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business" Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine ISI Web of Knowledge
  6. ^ Shleifer, Andrei (2024-04-24). "Andrei Shleifer". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2024-04-24.

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