Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu
Acemoglu in 2016
Born
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu

(1967-09-03) September 3, 1967
Istanbul, Turkey
CitizenshipTurkey and United States
SpouseAsu Ozdaglar
Institution
FieldPolitical economy
Economic growth
Development economics
Labour economics
School or
tradition
New institutional economics
Doctoral
advisor
Kevin W. S. Roberts
Doctoral
students
Robert Shimer • Mark Aguiar • Pol Antràs • Gabriel Carroll • Melissa Dell • Benjamin Jones • Ufuk Akcigit
InfluencesJoel Mokyr • Kenneth Sokoloff • Douglass North • Seymour Martin Lipset • Barrington Moore
Awards
  • John Bates Clark Medal (2005)
  • John von Neumann Award (2007)
  • Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics (2012)
  • BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016)
  • Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2024)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish American economist. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993.[1]

Acemoğlu received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024 with James A. Robinson and Simon Johnson.[2]

References

  1. "Daron Acemoğlu CV August 2022" (PDF). economics.mit.edu.
  2. "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-10-14.

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