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Acemoglu graduated in 1986 from the Galatasaray High School in Istanbul. He got his B.A. at the University of York, UK and his master's degree in mathematical economics and econometrics and then his doctorate in 1992 at the London School of Economics. He was a lecturer in economics at the London School from 1992-1993. Acemoglu became a member of the M.I.T. faculty in 1993. He was promoted to full professor in 2000, and was named the Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics in 2004. He is a member of the Economic Growth program of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research. He is also affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Center for Economic Performance, and Center for Economic Policy Research. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Galatasaray Lisesi in winter // Introduction Galatasaray Lisesi Lycée de Galatasaray is one of the most renowned and influential high schools of modern Turkey, in addition to being the oldest school of the Ottoman Empire. ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B.) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... The University of York is a campus university in York, England. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate (or graduate) course of one to three years in duration. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or simply the LSE, is a specialist university, located on Houghton Street in Central London, off the Aldwych and next to the Royal Courts of Justice. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Charles P. Kindleberger (1910 to July 7, 2003) was a historical economist and author of over 30 books. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to studying the science and empirics of economics, especially the American economy. ...

His principal interests are Political Economy, Economic Development, Economic Growth, Technology, Income and Wage Inequality, Human Capital and Training, and Labour Economics. His most recent works concentrate on the role of Institution in Economic Development and Political Economy.

Daron Acemoglu is also the co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, and associate editor of the Journal of Economic Growth.

Awards

• Comments of his PhD examiners:

"Daron's thesis consists of seven substantial chapters, of which the weakest three would have been sufficient for the award of a PhD" "Daron will keep returning to the ideas in his PhD thesis during his academic career when he runs out research ideas" "The best PhD I have examined in my career" ^{[citation needed]}

• Award for best paper published in the Economic Journal in 1996
• T. W. Schultz prize at the University of Chicago in 2004
• Sherwin Rosen award for outstanding contribution to labor economics in 2004
• John Bates Clark Medal in 2005
• Elected Fellow to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006 Academy announcement

• Academy Awards in the Social Sciences- 2006, Turkish Academy of Science (Acemoglu received the Science Award for his theoretical and empirical contributions on "the role of institutions in the process of economic development, based on the example of long-term effects left by institutions founded by European colonial administrations".)

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Publications

• Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (joint with James A. Robinson)
• Recent Developments in Growth Theory, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-84376-259-5
• Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson 2005, forthcoming, Handbook of Economic Growth

• Unbundling Institutions

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson 2005, forthcoming, Journal of Political Economics

• Constitutions, Politics and Economics; A Review Essay on Persson and Tabellini's "The Economic Effects of Constitutions"

Daron Acemoglu 2005, forthcoming, Journal of Economic Literature

• The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Growth

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson June 2005, American Economic Review

• Distance to Frontier, Selection, and Economic Growth

Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion and Fabrizio Zilibotti December 2004, forthcoming, Journal of the European Economic Association

• From Education to Democracy?

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson and Pierre Yared December 2004, forthcoming, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings

• Why Not a Political Coase Theorem? Social Conflict, Commitment and Politics

Daron Acemoglu December 2004, forthcoming, Journal of the Comparative Economic

• Market Size in Innovation: Theory and Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry

Daron Acemoglu and Joshua Linn August 2004, forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics

• Women, War and Wages: the Effect of Female Labor Supply on Labor Market Outcomes

Daron Acemoglu, David H. Author and David Lyle June 2004, Journal of Political Economics, vol. 112, 497-551

• Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson and Thierry Verdier April 2004, forthcoming, Journal of the European Economic Association

• The Marginal User Principle for Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks

Daron Acemoglu, Asuman E. Ozdaglar and R. Srikant 2004, Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

• Labor- and Capital-Augmenting Technical Change

Daron Acemoglu March 2003, Journal of European Economic Association, volume 1, pp. 1-37.

• Patterns of Skill Premia

Daron Acemoglu April 2003, Review of Economic Studies, volume 70, pp. 199-230.

• Cross-Country Inequality Trends

Daron Acemoglu February 2003, Economic Journal, volume 113, pp 121-149.

• Disease and Development in Historical Perspective

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson forthcoming 2003, Journal of the European Economic Association

• An African Success Story: Botswana

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson 2003, Published in In Search of Prosperity: Analytical Narrative on Economic Growth, edited by Dani Rodrik, Princeton University Press.

• Factor Prices and Technical Change: from Induced Innovations to Recent Debates

Daron Acemoglu Published in Knowledge, Information and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics: In Honor of Edmund Phelps, edited by Philippe Aghion et al, Princeton University Press, 2003.

• The Labor Market and Corporate Structure

Daron Acemoglu and Andrew Newman December 2002, European Economic Review, volume 46, pp. 1733-1756.

• Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson and Yunyong Thaicharoen January 2003, Journal of Monetary Economics, volume 50, pp. 49-123

• Directed Technical Change

Daron Acemoglu October 2002, Review of Economic Studies, volume 69. pp. 781-810.

• Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson November 2002, Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 117, pp. 1231-1294.

• The World Income Distribution

Daron Acemoglu and Jaume Ventura May 2002, Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 117, pp 659-694.

• Technical Change, Inequality, and The Labor Market

Daron Acemoglu March 2002, Journal of Economic Literature, volume 40, pp. 7-72.

• The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson and Simon Johnson December 2001, American Economic Review, volume 91, pp. 1369-1401.

• Inefficient Redistribution

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson September 2001, American Political Science Review, volume 95, pp. 649-661

• A Theory of Political Transitions

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson September 2001, American Economic Review, volume 91, pp 938-963.

• Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Daron Acemoglu and Joshua Angrist October 2001, Journal of Political Economy, volume 109, pp 915-957.

• Deunionization, Technical Change, and Inequality

Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion and Gianluca Violante 2001, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy

• Credit Market Imperfections and Persistent Unemployment

Daron Acemoglu April 2001, European Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, volume 45.

• Changes in the Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education

Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke April 2001, European Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, volume 45, pp. 890-904.

• Productivity Differences

Daron Acemoglu and Fabrizio Zilibotti May 2001, Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 116, pp. 563-606.

• Good Jobs versus Bad Jobs

Daron Acemoglu January 2001, Journal of Labor Economics, volume 19, pp. 1-22.

• Wage and Technology Dispersion

Daron Acemoglu and Robert Shimer October 2000, Review of Economic Studies, volume 67, pp. 585-608.

• Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson November 2000, Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 115, pp. 1167-1199.

• Political Losers As a Barrier to Economic Development

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson May 2000, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, volume 90, pp. 126-130

• How Large Are Human Capital Externalities? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws

Daron Acemoglu and Joshua Angrist 2000, NBER Macroannual, pp. 9-59.

• The Choice Between Market Failures and Corruption

Daron Acemoglu and Thierry Verdier March 2000, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, volume 90, pp. 194-211.

• Productivity Gains from Unemployment Insurance

Daron Acemoglu and Robert Shimer June 2000, European Economics Review, volume 44, pp. 1195-1224.

• Democratization or Repression?

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson April 2000, European Economics Review, Papers and Proceedings, vol 44, 683-693

• Certification of Training and Training Outcomes

Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke April 2000, European Economics Review, Papers and Proceedings, vol 44, 917-927

• Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality: An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence

Daron Acemoglu December 1999, American Economic Review, volume 89, pp. 1259-1278.

• Efficient Unemployment Insurance

Daron Acemoglu and Robert Shimer October 1999, Journal of Political Economy, volume 107, pp. 893-928.

• Holdups and Efficiency with Search Frictions

Daron Acemoglu and Robert Shimer November 1999, International Economic Review, volume 40, pp. 827-850.

• The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training

Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke June 1999, Journal of Political Economy, volume 107, pp. 539-572.

• Information Accumulation in Development

Daron Acemoglu and Fabrizio Zilibotti March 1999, Journal of Economic Growth, volume 4, pp. 5-38.

• Beyond Becker: Training in Imperfect Labor Markets

Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke February 1999, Economic Journal, volume 109, pp. 112-142.

• Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality

Daron Acemoglu November 1998, Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 113, pp. 1055-1089.

• Property Rights, Corruption and the Allocation of Talent: A General Equilibrium Approach

Daron Acemoglu and Thierry Verdier September 1998, Economic Journal, volume 108, pp. 1381-1403.

• Why Do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence

Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke February 1998, Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 113, pp. 79-119.

• Credit Market Imperfections and Separation of Ownership from Control

Daron Acemoglu February 1998, Journal of Economic Theory, volume 78, pp. 355-381.

• Asymmetric Business Cycles: Theory and Time Series Evidence

Daron Acemoglu and Andrew Scott December 1997, Journal of Monetary Economics, volume 40, pp. 501-522.

• Was Prometheus Unbound by Chance? Risk, Diversification and Growth

Daron Acemoglu and Fabrizio Zilibotti August 1997, Journal of Political Economy, volume 105, pp. 709-751.

• Training and Innovation in an Imperfect Labor Market

Daron Acemoglu July 1997, Review of Economic Studies, volume 64, pp. 445-464.

• Matching, Heterogeneity and the Evolution of Income Distribution

Daron Acemoglu March 1997, Journal of Economic Growth, volume 2, pp. 61-92.

• A Microfoundation For Social Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation

Daron Acemoglu August 1996, Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 111, pp. 779-804.

• Asymmetric Information, Bargaining and Unemployment Fluctuations

Daron Acemoglu November 1995, International Economic Review, volume 36, pp. 1003-1024.

• Reward Structures and Allocation of Talent

Daron Acemoglu January 1995, European Economic Review, volume 39, pp. 17-33.

• Vertical Integration and Distance to Frontier

Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion and Fabrizio Zilibotti forthcoming 2003, Journal of the European Economic Association

External links

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• [1] Article on Acemoglu in EconomicPrincipals.com