Spousal Combinations
30 June 2007 at 9:37 am Peter G. Klein 16 comments
| Peter Klein |
This post got me thinking: who are the top husband-and-wife teams (not named Foss or Klein) in economics, management, finance, and related fields? Some candidates:
- George Akerlof and Janet Yellen
- Birger Wernerfelt and Cynthia Montgomery
- David and Christina Romer
- Guido Imbens and Susan Athey
- Scott Schaefer and Rachel Hayes
There must be many more. Suggestions? More importantly, is there a good explanation — perhaps from team theory — for greater (or lower) productivity in spousal teams, compared to other types of collaborative units? (Serious answers only, please!)
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Guan Yang | 30 June 2007 at 9:41 am
Barro and McCleary?
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Guan Yang | 30 June 2007 at 9:43 am
Johansen and Juselius!
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JCS | 30 June 2007 at 2:25 pm
Hi.
A minor correction:
Birger Wernerfelt with an _I_ not _E_ ;-)
Cheers,
J
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Peter Klein | 30 June 2007 at 3:17 pm
JCS, thanks, now corrected.
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Chihmao Hsieh | 1 July 2007 at 3:53 am
Probably not a ‘top’ team, but there are a couple papers by Lee and Alexandra Benham (albeit a father-daughter team? I’m not precisely sure…).
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Peter Klein | 1 July 2007 at 2:45 pm
Husband-and-wife, though I’m sure Alexandra would be flattered by the error!
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JLD | 1 July 2007 at 4:37 pm
Mark and Cynthia Lengnick-Hall have done good work in strategy.
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geoff | 2 July 2007 at 11:04 am
Scotchmer and Ferrell are an ex-husband and wife team.
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Peter Klein | 2 July 2007 at 11:07 am
Whoops. I’ll take them off.
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Bart | 2 July 2007 at 12:36 pm
The late Milton and Rose Friedman
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Pablo | 2 July 2007 at 12:52 pm
Becker and Nashat
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Robert | 3 July 2007 at 9:27 pm
Isn’t Krugman married to an economist?
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Pascal | 4 July 2007 at 12:48 am
Can we consider marriage as a special case of vertical integration, using the transaction costs approach?
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Ty Mackey | 5 July 2007 at 7:46 pm
Mackey & Mackey?
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Ty Mackey | 5 July 2007 at 7:55 pm
Pascal,
In the vertical integration scenario, who is the upstream partner?
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David | 9 August 2007 at 1:47 pm
Horizontal integration is more like it.