Michael Spence

26.9k citations
76 papers · 16.2k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 29

Impact in

  • Accounting top 0.2%
    • Corporate Finance and Governance
    • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Marketing top 0.2%
    • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing

Papers in

Michael Spence

68 papers receiving 14.4k citations

Hit Papers

Signaling in Retrospect and the Informational Structure of Markets 2002 · 1.6k citations
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Peers

Michael Spence
Comparison fields: 5 of 183
  • Accounting 3.2k
  • Marketing 2.5k
  • Economics and Econometrics 7.1k
  • Strategy and Management 3.7k
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 1.6k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Michael Spence, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20230
2 20217
3 202145
4 202028
5 201719
6
Why Globalization Stalled
20172
7
Contestable Markets and the Theory of Industry Structure: AlReview Articleo
20162
8
New world order
20146
9
Globalization and Unemployment
20118
10 200910
11
Vagueness in the Scope of Copyright
20086
12
Growth Strategies and Dynamics
20082
13
La señalización y la estructura informativa de los mercados
20022
14 200119
15 200180
16 200043
17
Isotopic Modeling of the Significance of Sulphate Reduction for Phenol Attenuation in a Polluted Aquifer
19993
18
Product Differentiation and Welfare
1976150
19
Emisión de señales en el mercado de puestos de trabajo
19761
20
Job Market Signaling
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About Michael Spence

Michael Spence is a scholar working on Geochemistry and Petrology, Economics and Econometrics, Classics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Pollution, having authored 76 papers that have together received 16.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (8 papers), Economic Growth and Productivity (6 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (6 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (6 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 papers), Economic theories and models (5 papers), Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 papers) and Merger and Competition Analysis (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Accounting (3.2k citations), Marketing (2.5k citations), Economics and Econometrics (7.1k citations), Strategy and Management (3.7k citations) and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (1.6k citations). Michael Spence has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Marc J. Roberts, Richard Zeckhauser, Bruce M. Owen, Emmett B. Keeler, Simon H. Bottrell, Steven F. Thornton, David A. Starrett, Robert M. Buckley, Patricia Clarke Annez and Rick van der Ploeg. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Applied Geochemistry and American Economic Review.

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