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Andrei Shleifer

Date of Birth 20-February-1961
Place of Birth Moscow
(Russia, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, Moscow Oblast, Europe)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Andrei Schleifer
Profession Economist
Andrei Shleifer is a Russian American economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1991. Shleifer was awarded the biannual John Bates Clark Medal in 1999 for his seminal works in three fields: corporate finance, the economics of financial markets, and the economics of transition. The Clark medal citation described him as a "superb economist, working in the old Chicago tradition of building simple models, emphasizing basic economic mechanisms, and carefully looking at the evidence.... A recurring theme of his research is the respective role of markets, institutions, and governments." IDEAS/RePEc has ranked him as the top economist in the world, and he is also listed as #1 on the list of "Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business". He served as project director of the Harvard Institute for International Development's Russian aid project from its inauguration in 1992 until it was shut down in 1997.

Awards by Andrei Shleifer

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