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Autobiography

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  • Spence, A. Michael

    (Stanford University)

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I was born during the second World War in Montclair New Jersey. This was more or less an accident (the location that is). My father was based in Ottawa as a member of the War Time Prices and Trades Board, the Canadian version of wartime price controls. That work entailed frequent trips to Washington to coordinate with their American counterparts. New Jersey is more or less half way between the two capitals and my mother was visiting friends. So although I grew up in Canada during and after the war until leaving for college in the United States, I managed to also be an American by birth.

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  • Spence, A. Michael, 2002. "Autobiography," Nobel Prize in Economics documents 2001-5, Nobel Prize Committee.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:nobelp:2001_005
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    Keywords

    Asymmetric Information;

    JEL classification:

    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design

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