Michael D. Whinston is an American economist and currently the Sloan Fellows Professor at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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. Previously he was the Robert E. and Emily H. King Professor at
Northwestern University
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Charte ...
and is also a Fellow to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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and
Econometric Society
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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
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. He then went on to receive a PhD in economics from
MIT
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.
Personal life
Whinston is married to political theorist and Brown University professor
Bonnie Honig
Bonnie Honig (born 1959), is a political, feminist, and legal theorist specializing in democratic theory. In 2013-14, she became Nancy Duke Lewis Professor-Elect of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University, succeeding A ...
.
Honors
Frisch Medal
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: 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.”
Distinguished Fellow: received the Industrial Organization Society Distinguished Fellow Award for his contributions and leadership in the field of Industrial Organization.
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.
References
Living people
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty
21st-century American economists
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1959 births
Fellows of the Econometric Society
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