Michael Spence
Impact in
- Economics and Econometrics top 0.05%
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Merger and Competition Analysis
- Economic theories and models
- Firm Innovation and Growth
- Accounting top 0.2%
- Corporate Finance and Governance
- Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
Papers in
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- Economic Growth and Productivity 6
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth 5
- Economic theories and models 5
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- Groundwater flow and contamination studies 7
- Co-authors
- Marc J. Roberts (1 shared paper)Richard Zeckhauser (3 shared papers)Bruce M. Owen (1 shared paper)Emmett B. Keeler (1 shared paper)Simon H. Bottrell (14 shared papers)Steven F. Thornton (14 shared papers)Robert M. Buckley (2 shared papers)Patricia Clarke Annez (2 shared papers)
- Journals
- Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (5 papers)The Quarterly Journal of Economics (4 papers)Applied Geochemistry (3 papers)Northern History (3 papers)Foreign Affairs (3 papers)
- Partner nations
- United KingdomUnited StatesNetherlands
In The Last Decade
Michael Spence
79 papers receiving 16.9k citations
Michael Spence's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 183
- Economics and Econometrics 8.5k
- Accounting 3.5k
- Marketing 2.8k
- Strategy and Management 4.4k
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 1.7k
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Job Market Signaling Hit paper breakdown → | 1973 | 10443 |
| 2 | Signaling in Retrospect and the Informational Structure of Markets Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 1700 |
| 3 | Product Selection, Fixed Costs, and Monopolistic Competition Hit paper breakdown → | 1976 | 904 |
| 4 | Cost Reduction, Competition and Industry Performance Hit paper breakdown → | 1986 | 644 |
| 5 | Cost Reduction, Competition, and Industry Performance Hit paper breakdown → | 1984 | 636 |
| 6 | Effluent charges and licenses under uncertainty Hit paper breakdown → | 1976 | 532 |
| 7 | Competitive and optimal responses to signals: An analysis of efficiency and distribution Hit paper breakdown → | 1974 | 506 |
| 8 | Consumer Misperceptions, Product Failure and Producer Liability Hit paper breakdown → | 1977 | 432 |
| 9 | JOB MARKET SIGNALING **The essay is based on the author's doctoral dissertation (“Market Signalling: The Informational Structure of Job Markets and Related Phenomena,” Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, 1972), forthcoming as a book entitled Market Signaling: Information Transfer in Hinng and Related Screening Processes in the Harvard Economic Studies Series, Harvard University Press. The aim here is to present the outline of the signaling model and some of its conclusions. Generalizations of the numerical examples used for expositional purposes here are found in ibid, and elsewhere. Hit paper breakdown → | 1978 | 358 |
| 10 | The optimal control of pollution Hit paper breakdown → | 1972 | 284 |
| 11 | 1978 | 207 | |
| 12 | Television Programming, Monopolistic Competition, and Welfare Hit paper breakdown → | 1977 | 196 |
| 13 | 1976 | 192 | |
| 14 | 2009 | 187 | |
| 15 | 1977 | 180 | |
| 16 | 2008 | 174 | |
| 17 | Product Differentiation and Welfare | 1976 | 156 |
| 18 | 1975 | 119 | |
| 19 | 2001 | 107 | |
| 20 | 1972 | 100 |
About Michael Spence
Michael Spence is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Pollution, Marketing and Geochemistry and Petrology, having authored 91 papers that have together received 19.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (8 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (7 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (7 papers), Economic Growth and Productivity (6 papers), Copyright and Intellectual Property (5 papers), Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (5 papers), Economic theories and models (5 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Economics and Econometrics (8.5k citations), Accounting (3.5k citations), Marketing (2.8k citations), Strategy and Management (4.4k citations) and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (1.7k citations). Michael Spence has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Marc J. Roberts, Richard Zeckhauser, Bruce M. Owen, Emmett B. Keeler, Simon H. Bottrell, Steven F. Thornton, Robert M. Buckley, Patricia Clarke Annez, David A. Starrett and Rick van der Ploeg. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Applied Geochemistry, Northern History and Foreign Affairs.
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