Michael Spence

27.8k citations
77 papers · 16.5k · 9 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

  • Accounting top 0.2%
    • Corporate Finance and Governance
    • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Marketing top 0.2%
    • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing

Papers in

Michael Spence

68 papers receiving 14.8k citations

Michael Spence's Hit Papers

Signaling in Retrospect and the Informational Structure of Markets 2002 · 1.6k citations
1.6k0+18+36Years since publication2.5k5.0k7.5k

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Michael Spence
Comparison fields: 5 of 181
  • Accounting 3.2k
  • Marketing 2.6k
  • Economics and Econometrics 7.1k
  • Strategy and Management 3.7k
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 1.6k
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All Works

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Job Market Signaling
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19739628
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Signaling in Retrospect and the Informational Structure of Markets
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20021618
3
Product Selection, Fixed Costs, and Monopolistic Competition
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1976814
4
Cost Reduction, Competition, and Industry Performance
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1984564
5
Effluent charges and licenses under uncertainty
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1976466
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Competitive and optimal responses to signals: An analysis of efficiency and distribution
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1974460
7
Consumer Misperceptions, Product Failure and Producer Liability
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1977396
8
The optimal control of pollution
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1972246
9
Television Programming, Monopolistic Competition, and Welfare
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1977177
10 1978176
11 2009165
12 1976161
13 1977152
14
Product Differentiation and Welfare
1976150
15 2008133
16 1975107
17 200197
18 197290
19 200180
20 200569

About Michael Spence

Michael Spence is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Pollution, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Geochemistry and Petrology, having authored 77 papers that have together received 16.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (8 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (6 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (6 papers), Economic Growth and Productivity (6 papers), Economic theories and models (5 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 papers), Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 papers) and Merger and Competition Analysis (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Accounting (3.2k citations), Marketing (2.6k citations), Economics and Econometrics (7.1k citations), Strategy and Management (3.7k citations) and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (1.6k 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, David A. Starrett, Robert M. Buckley, Patricia Clarke Annez and David N. Lerner. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Foreign Affairs, American Economic Review and Journal of Public Economics.

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