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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1978 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1974 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Michael Rothschild is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their academic career includes contributions to the field of economics, as reflected by several prestigious awards and recognitions.

Rothschild has authored at least one book published by World Scientific, titled Reverse Engineering God, which was released in 2020.

The following honors have been awarded to Rothschild during their career:

  • Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2005)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1998)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1978)
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society (1974)

These recognitions indicate sustained contributions to their discipline over multiple decades, covering both economic theory and broader scientific inquiry.

While specific research topics, subfields, or publication venues are not detailed here, Rothschild's career is marked by a combination of both scholarly authorship and recognition through major academic societies.

Best Publications

  • Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets: An Essay on the Economics of Imperfect Information

    Michael Rothschild;Michael Rothschild;Joseph E. Stiglitz;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Increasing risk: I. A definition

    Michael Rothschild;Joseph E. Stiglitz;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Increasing risk II: Its economic consequences

    Michael Rothschild;Joseph E Stiglitz

  • Arbitrage, Factor Structure, and Mean-Variance Analysis on Large Asset Markets

    Gary Chamberlain;Michael Rothschild

  • The Changing Tolerance for Income Inequality in the Course of Economic Development With A Mathematical Appendix

    Albert O. Hirschman;Michael Rothschild

  • Asset pricing with a factor-arch covariance structure : Empirical estimates for treasury bills

    Robert F. Engle;Victor K. Ng;Michael Rothschild

  • Carrots, Sticks, and Promises: A Conceptual Framework for the Management of Public Health and Social Issue Behaviors

    Michael L. Rothschild

  • A two-armed bandit theory of market pricing

    Michael Rothschild

  • Searching for the Lowest Price When the Distribution of Prices Is Unknown

    Michael Rothschild

  • Asset pricing with a factor-arch covariance structure

    Robert F. Engle;Victor K. Ng;Michael Rothschild

  • The Analytics of the Pricing of Higher Education and Other Services in Which the Customers Are Inputs

    Michael Rothschild;Lawrence J. White

  • Models of Market Organization with Imperfect Information: A Survey

    Michael Rothschild

  • Some further results on the measurement of inequality

    Michael Rothschild;Joseph E Stiglitz

  • On the allocation of effort

    Roy Radner;Michael Rothschild

  • Perspectives on Involvement: Current Problems and Future Directions

    Michael L. Rothschild

  • BEHAVIORAL LEARNING THEORY: ITS RELEVANCE TO MARKETING AND PROMOTIONS

    Michael L. Rothschild;William C. Gaidis

  • Testing the Assumptions of Production Theory: A Nonparametric Approach

    Giora Hanoch;Michael Rothschild

  • Marketing communications in nonbusiness situations or why it's so hard to sell brotherhood like soap.

    Michael L Rothschild

  • Toward An Economic Theory of Replacement Investment

    Martin S. Feldstein;Michael Rothschild

  • Recognition versus recall as measures of television commercial forgetting.

    Surendra N. Singh;Michael L. Rothschild;Gilbert A. Churchill

  • 17 – EQUILIBRIUM IN COMPETITIVE INSURANCE MARKETS: AN ESSAY ON THE ECONOMICS OF IMPERFECT INFORMATION*

    Michael Rothschild;Joseph Stiglitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Byron Reeves
Byron Reeves Stanford University
Esther Thorson
Esther Thorson Michigan State University
Christopher Winship
Christopher Winship Harvard University
Albert O. Hirschman
Albert O. Hirschman Institute for Advanced Study

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