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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16 Comments Add your own

1. Guan Yang | 30 June 2007 at 9:41 am

Barro and McCleary?
2. Guan Yang | 30 June 2007 at 9:43 am

Johansen and Juselius!
3. JCS | 30 June 2007 at 2:25 pm

Hi.

A minor correction:

Birger Wernerfelt with an _I_ not _E_ ;-)

Cheers,

J
4. Peter Klein | 30 June 2007 at 3:17 pm

JCS, thanks, now corrected.
5. 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…).
6. Peter Klein | 1 July 2007 at 2:45 pm

Husband-and-wife, though I’m sure Alexandra would be flattered by the error!
7. JLD | 1 July 2007 at 4:37 pm

Mark and Cynthia Lengnick-Hall have done good work in strategy.
8. geoff | 2 July 2007 at 11:04 am

Scotchmer and Ferrell are an ex-husband and wife team.
9. Peter Klein | 2 July 2007 at 11:07 am

Whoops. I’ll take them off.
10. Bart | 2 July 2007 at 12:36 pm

The late Milton and Rose Friedman
11. Pablo | 2 July 2007 at 12:52 pm

Becker and Nashat
12. Robert | 3 July 2007 at 9:27 pm

Isn’t Krugman married to an economist?
13. Pascal | 4 July 2007 at 12:48 am

Can we consider marriage as a special case of vertical integration, using the transaction costs approach?
14. Ty Mackey | 5 July 2007 at 7:46 pm

Mackey & Mackey?
15. Ty Mackey | 5 July 2007 at 7:55 pm

Pascal,

In the vertical integration scenario, who is the upstream partner?
16. David | 9 August 2007 at 1:47 pm

Horizontal integration is more like it.