Dear EFG Program Members:
You may already have heard the sad news of the passing last Thursday of
Dale Mortensen, a Research Associate in the NBER's Economic Fluctuations
and Growth Program. Dale, who was 74, was the Board of Trustees
Professor of Economics at Northwestern University at the time of his
death. He was a pioneer in the study of labor market equilibrium in the
presence of search and turnover frictions; his work provided fundamental
insights on wage and employment dynamics. Dale shared the 2010 Nobel
Prize with Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides for this body of
research.
Dale graduated from Willamette University in 1961 with a B.A. in
economics and received his Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon in 1967. He spent
his whole career as a faculty member at Northwestern, which has posted
an obituary at
http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2014/01/nobel-laureate-dale-mortensen-dies.html
Dale joined the NBER as a Research Associate in 2005. He was the
recipient of many honors in addition to the Nobel Prize, including a
Distinguished Fellowship from the American Economic Association and the
Mincer Prize from the Society of Labor Economists.
Dale was a path-breaking scholar who made important contributions to the
NBER and to many other institutions. He will be deeply missed.
Jim Poterba
Received on Mon Jan 13 2014 - 08:49:07 EST
