Michael Whinston

Michael Whinston
Born (1959-02-03) February 3, 1959 (age 65)
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
InstitutionMIT
Northwestern University
Harvard University
Alma materMIT
University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral
advisor		Franklin M. Fisher
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Michael D. Whinston is an American economist and currently the Sloan Fellows Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously he was the Robert E. and Emily H. King Professor at Northwestern University and is also a Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Econometric Society.[1][2] Together with Andreu Mas-Colell and Jerry R. Green he authored the standard US graduate level microeconomics textbook: Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston and Jerry R. Green (1995) Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press

Education

Whinston received a bachelors of science in economics and an MBA in finance from Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania. He then went on to receive a PhD in economics from MIT.[3]

Personal life

Whinston is married to political theorist and Brown University professor Bonnie Honig.[4]

Honors

Frisch Medal: awarded the Frisch Medal in 2016 for a paper he co-authored with Ben Handel and Igal Handel titled “Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection Versus Reclassification Risk.”[5]

Distinguished Fellow: received the Industrial Organization Society Distinguished Fellow Award for his contributions and leadership in the field of Industrial Organization.[6]

Robert F. Lanzilliotti Prize: won the 2014 Robert F. Lanzilliotti Prize for his paper “Internal Vs. External Growth in Industries with Scale Economies: A Computational Model of Optimal Merger Policy,” co-authored with Ben Mermelstein, Volker Nocke, and Mark Satterthwaite. The award is given to the best paper in antitrust economics.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Michael Whinston". mit.edu. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  2. ^ "Michael Whinston". mit.edu. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  3. ^ "Michael Whinston". 16 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Bonnie Honig Weds Michael Whinston". The New York Times. 9 July 1990.
  5. ^ "Michael Whinston". 16 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Michael Whinston". 16 November 2023.
  7. ^ "Michael Whinston". 16 November 2023.
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