John Geanakoplos

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John Geanakoplos (born March 18, 1955 in Urbana , Illinois ) is an economist at Yale University and the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics there . He is best known for his work on mechanisms underlying economic crises , in particular the leverage cycle , which describes the relationships between leverage , credit and credit protection . Earlier work deals with the peculiarities of incomplete capital markets (see complete capital market ) and with game theory . Geanakoplos is being traded as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Economics .

Geanakoplos is the son of the Greek-American Byzantinist Deno John Geanakoplos (1916-2007). In 1970, at the age of 15, he won the junior tournament of the United States Open Chess Championship .

John Geanakoplos earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University in 1975 and a master's degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 1980, as well as Four Essays on the Model of Arrow and Debreu with the Nobel Prize winner in economics, Kenneth Arrow and Jerry R. . Green a Ph.D. in economics . In the same year Geanakoplos received a first professorship (assistant professor) for economics at Yale University. In 1983 he became an associate professor and in 1986 he was given a full professorship. Since 1994 he has held the James Tobin Professorship for Economics there.

Geanakoplos was director of the Cowles Foundation , an economics research institute at Yale University , from 1996 to 2005 . Since 1990 he has also held various functions at the Santa Fe Institute , including a visiting professorship there since 1991 and director of the steering committee from 2009 to 2015. In addition, in 2002 he co-founded Hellenic Studies (for example: "Greece Studies"; language, culture and history of post-classical Greece ) at Yale University and is still (as of 2018) co-director of this department.

1982 Geanakoplos was a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). In 1999 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He holds honorary doctorates from the following universities: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2011), Clark University (2016), Quinnipiac University (2017).

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  • On a fundamental conflict between equity and efficiency , 1988

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Warsh: "This Time They Are More Interested" - Economic Principals. In: economicprincipals.com. April 12, 2009, accessed May 12, 2018 .
  2. ^ Noah Smith: Five Economists Who Deserve Nobels. In: Bloomberg View. December 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter G. (PDF; 931 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed May 10, 2018 .
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SURNAME Geanakoplos, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Urbana , Illinois