Michael Rothschild

Michael Rothschild (born August 2, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American economist; he is visiting professor at the Department of Economics of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and a former dean at Princeton.

Michael Rothschild
Born (1942-08-02) August 2, 1942
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityUnited States
InstitutionDepartment of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
FieldMicroeconomics, public economics
Alma materMIT (Ph.D., 1969)
Yale University (M.A., 1965)
Reed College (B.A., 1963)
Doctoral
advisor		Franklin M. Fisher[1]
Doctoral
students		Oliver Hart
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Education

Rothschild holds a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from Reed College (1963), and a Master of Arts in international relations from Yale University (1965). He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1969).

Academic career

He was the William Stuart Tod Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He was dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University from 1995 through 2001. Rothschild has written on asymmetric information, decision-making under uncertainty, demography, investment, taxation, finance, and jury-decision processes.

He co-authored one of the most important papers in economics, Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets: An Essay on the Economics of Imperfect Information,[2] with Joseph Stiglitz. This paper gives the first systematic exposition of the problem of cherry picking when insurance companies compete for customers. In Increasing Risk I: A definition,[3] Rothschild and Stiglitz introduced the important decision theory concept of the mean-preserving spread, which leads to a partial ordering of probability distributions according to degree of risk.

References
  1. Rothschild, Michael (1969). Essays in economic theory (PDF) (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  2. Rothschild, Michael; Stiglitz, Joseph E. (November 1976). "Equilibrium in competitive insurance markets: an essay on the economics of imperfect information". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 90 (4): 629–49. doi:10.2307/1885326. JSTOR 1885326.
  3. Rothschild, Michael; Stiglitz, Joseph E. (September 1970). "Increasing risk: I. a definition". Journal of Economic Theory. 2 (3): 225–43. doi:10.1016/0022-0531(70)90038-4.
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