Michael Whinston

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Michael Whinston
Born (1959-02-03) February 3, 1959 (age 64)
Nationality American
Academic career
Institution MIT
Northwestern University
Harvard University
Alma mater MIT
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] Whinston is a partner at Bates White Economic Consulting. [3]

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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. [4]

Personal life

Whinston is married to political theorist and Brown University professor Bonnie Honig. [5]

Honors

Frisch Medal: awarded the Frisch Medal in 2015 for a paper he co-authored with Ben Handel and Igal Handel titled “Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection Versus Reclassification Risk.” [6]

Distinguished Fellow: received the Industrial Organization Society Distinguished Fellow Award for his contributions and leadership in the field of Industrial Organization. [7]

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. [8]

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References

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  3. "Michael Whinston, PhD". www.bateswhite.com. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
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