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Nobel Laureate Prof. Michael Spence's co-analyses of markets with asymmetric information is cited

Excerpt from The New York Times -- " ... even when unconstrained, price movements are often insufficient to clear markets, as pointed out by George Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz in work that garnered them the Nobel Prize. This outcome is particularly likely in markets where both sides of an economic transaction have differing sets of information, like in the credit market."

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