Dale T. Mortensen
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Dale T. Mortensen was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on search and matching theory in labor economics.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dale T. Mortensen Context triple: [Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics, notableRecipient, Dale T. Mortensen]
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Pol Antràs
Pol Antràs is a Spanish economist known for his influential research on international trade, global value chains, and firm organization, and for serving as a professor of economics at Harvard University.
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Karl E. Case
Karl E. Case was an American economist best known for co-developing the widely used Case-Shiller Home Price Index that tracks U.S. residential real estate prices.
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David Romer
David Romer is an influential American macroeconomist known for his work on New Keynesian economics, advanced macroeconomic theory, and widely used graduate-level textbooks.
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Robert J. Hodrick
Robert J. Hodrick is an American economist best known for his work in macroeconomics and finance, including the development of the Hodrick–Prescott filter used to analyze business cycles.
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Edward C. Prescott
Edward C. Prescott was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on real business cycle theory and time consistency in economic policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dale T. Mortensen Target entity description: Dale T. Mortensen was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on search and matching theory in labor economics.
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A.
Pol Antràs
Pol Antràs is a Spanish economist known for his influential research on international trade, global value chains, and firm organization, and for serving as a professor of economics at Harvard University.
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B.
Karl E. Case
Karl E. Case was an American economist best known for co-developing the widely used Case-Shiller Home Price Index that tracks U.S. residential real estate prices.
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C.
David Romer
David Romer is an influential American macroeconomist known for his work on New Keynesian economics, advanced macroeconomic theory, and widely used graduate-level textbooks.
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D.
Robert J. Hodrick
Robert J. Hodrick is an American economist best known for his work in macroeconomics and finance, including the development of the Hodrick–Prescott filter used to analyze business cycles.
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E.
Edward C. Prescott
Edward C. Prescott was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on real business cycle theory and time consistency in economic policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Economics
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economist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in economics ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Kellogg School of Management
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surface form:
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
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| areaOfInfluence |
labor market policy analysis
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unemployment theory ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
IZA Prize in Labor Economics
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Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Thomas Pissarides
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surface form:
Christopher A. Pissarides
Peter A. Diamond ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
microfoundations of unemployment
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search theory in economics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2014 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Franco Modigliani ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
CMU
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surface form:
Carnegie Mellon University
Willamette University ⓘ |
| employer | Northwestern University ⓘ |
| familyName | Mortensen ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
labor economics
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macroeconomics ⓘ search and matching theory ⓘ |
| genre | academic research ⓘ |
| givenName | Dale ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline | economics ⓘ |
| inceptionOfCareer | 20th century ⓘ |
| influenced | modern search and matching macroeconomics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Diamond–Mortensen–Pissarides model
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matching function approach to labor markets ⓘ theory of job search and unemployment ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Econometric Society ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
endogenous job creation and destruction
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search frictions in labor markets ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Thomas Pissarides
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surface form:
Christopher A. Pissarides
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| notableWork | search and matching theory of unemployment ⓘ |
| occupation |
researcher
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university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Enterprise, Oregon
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surface form:
Enterprise, Oregon, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
Wilmette, Illinois
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surface form:
Wilmette, Illinois, United States
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| positionHeld | professor of economics ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Evanston, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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