Dale T. Mortensen

Winner of 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics

Professor of the Northwestern University

戴尔·莫滕森现任职于美国西北大学。莫滕森在卡内基梅隆大学获得博士学位，在维拉马特大学获得学士学位。1965年以来莫滕森一直在美国西北大学任教。除劳动经济学外，他还研究宏观经济学和经济学理论。莫滕森最知名之处是他在摩擦性失业理论方面的开创性研究工作。从这一成果出发，他进一步研究了劳工移动率和再安置等方面的问题。

莫滕森获得过2005年IZA劳动经济学奖，2000年成为美国艺术和科学院院士，1979年成为美国计量经济学会会员，1965年获得亚历山大-亨德森奖。

Dale Thomas Mortensen received his Ph.D. in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University and his B.A. in economics from Willamette University. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He has been on the faculty of Northwestern University since 1965 and a professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at the Kellogg School of Management since 1980.He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics jointly along with Christopher A. Pissarides from the London School of Economics and Peter A. Diamond from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010 for "for their analysis of markets with search frictions".

Mortensen's research focuses on labor economics, macroeconomics and economic theory. He is especially known for his pioneering work on the search and matching theory of frictional unemployment. He has extended the insights from this work to study labor turnover and reallocation, research and development, and personal relationships.