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Peter Diamond
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Nobel prize in economics winner
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- Works
- 6
Top works
- La reforma necesaria
- Uncertainty in Economics
- Diamond Wealth Real Estate System
- Behavioral Economics and Its Applications
- An equilibrium analysis of search and breach of contract
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Key facts
- Born
- Peter Arthur Diamond , ( 1940-04-29 ) April 29, 1940 (age 86) , New York City , New York , U.S.
- Known for
- Diamond coconut model , Overlapping generations model
- Spouse
- Kate Myrick
- Education
- Yale University ( BA ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MA , PhD )
- Thesis
- Essays on optimal economic growth (1963)
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert Solow
- Discipline
- Political economics , Welfare economics , Behavioral economics
- Institutions
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology , University of California, Berkeley , University of Cambridge
- Doctoral students
- Martin Hellwig , David K. Levine , Andrei Shleifer , Emmanuel Saez , Botond Kőszegi
- Awards
- Nemmers Prize in Economics (1994) , Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2010)
- Website
- Information at IDEAS / RePEc
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2010
“for their analysis of markets with search frictions”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Family name
- Diamond
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Occupation
- professor
- Position held
- president
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert Solow
- Field of work
- behavioral economics
- Image
- Peter Diamond (economist).jpg
- Residence
- Massachusetts
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- Peter Diamond
- date of birth
- 1940-04-29
- member of
- Econometric Society
- name in native language
- Peter A. Diamond
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
Peter Arthur Diamond (born April 29, 1940) is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On June 6, 2011, he withdrew his nomination to serve on the Federal Reserve's board of governors, citing intractable Republican opposition for 14 months.
Early life and education
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