Peter A. Diamond (1940- )

Awarded the Prize “for analysis of markets with search frictions.”

Peter A. Diamond is an American Economist. He was born on 29 April 1940 in USA. Diamond earned a bachelors degree in mathematics from Yale University in 1960 received a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963. He served as President of the American Economic Association is currently Professor of MIT.
Major Works:
A Search-Equilibrium Approach to the Micro Foundations of Macroeconomics (1984); Taxation, Incomplete Markets, Social Security (2002)