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1 Early life and education  





2 Career  





3 Death  





4 Awards, fellowships  





5 The Dale T. Mortensen Building  





6 Selected publications  





7 References  





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Dale T. Mortensen
Mortensen in 2010
Born(1939-02-02)February 2, 1939
DiedJanuary 9, 2014(2014-01-09) (aged 74)
Academic career
InstitutionNorthwestern University
FieldLabor economics
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
Willamette University
Doctoral
advisor
Michael C. Lovell
Doctoral
students
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
AwardsIZA Prize in Labor Economics (2005)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
2010
InformationatIDEAS / RePEc
Academic background
ThesisThe macro-dynamic implications of the 'permanent income' and 'life cycle' savings hypothesis (1967)

Dale Thomas Mortensen (February 2, 1939 – January 9, 2014) was an American economist, a professor at Northwestern University, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Early life and education[edit]

Mortensen was born in Enterprise, Oregon.[1] He received his BA in economics from Willamette University in 1961 and his PhD in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1967.[2]

Career[edit]

Peter Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen, Christopher A. Pissarides, Konstantin Novoselov, Andre Geim, Akira Suzuki, Ei-ichi Negishi, and Richard Heck, Nobel Prize Laureates 2010, at a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

Mortensen had been on the faculty of Northwestern University since 1965 and a professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at the Kellogg School of Management since 1980.[3] He was the Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Aarhus University, from 2006 to 2010.[4]

He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Christopher A. Pissarides from the London School of Economics and Peter A. Diamond from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010[5] "for their analysis of markets with search frictions".[6] In May 2011, Mortensen was awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Willamette University.[7] He was married to Beverly Mortensen, also a Northwestern Professor.

Mortensen's research focused on labor economics, macroeconomics and economic theory. He is especially known for his pioneering work on the search and matching theoryoffrictional unemployment. He extended the insights from this work to study labor turnover and reallocation, research and development, and personal relationships.

Mortensen was a past president of the Society of Economic Dynamics and one of the founding editors of the Review of Economic Dynamics.

Death[edit]

Mortensen died of stage 4 lung cancer on January 9, 2014, at the age of 74, at his home in Wilmette.[8][9][10][11]

Awards, fellowships[edit]

The Dale T. Mortensen Building[edit]

In February 2011, Mortensen had a building named in his honor at Aarhus University. The Dale T. Mortensen Building is the central hub for all international and PhD activities and contains the new PhD House, Dale's Café, the university's International Centre and the new IC Dormitory for international PhD students.[12]

Selected publications[edit]

References[edit]

  • ^ "Dale T. Mortensen | American economist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  • ^ Curriculum Vita of Dale T. Mortensen
  • ^ "Dale T Mortensen: Labor Research Group". Econ.au.dk. April 27, 2009. Archived from the original on June 30, 2010. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
  • ^ "Dale Mortensen: Department of Economics - Northwestern University". www.economics.northwestern.edu. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  • ^ a b The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010 Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen, Christopher A. Pissarides, official web site
  • ^ http://www.willamette.edu/news/library/2011/03/commencement_2011.html Archived March 12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Willamette University | Commencement 2011
  • ^ Stout, Hilary (January 10, 2014). "Dale T. Mortensen, Labor Economist and Nobel Laureate, Dies at 74". The New York Times.
  • ^ "Dale Mortensen Obituary (1939 - 2014) Reading Eagle". Legacy.com.
  • ^ "Bloomberg Business". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014.
  • ^ DALE MORTENSEN, NOBEL LAUREATE, DIES AT 74
  • ^ "International Centre".
  • External links[edit]

    Awards
    Preceded by

    Elinor Ostrom
    Oliver E. Williamson

    Laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
    2010
    Served alongside: Peter A. Diamond, Christopher A. Pissarides
    Succeeded by

    Thomas J. Sargent
    Christopher A. Sims


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