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Nobel Prize for Economics

Name Year The Work
George A. Akerlof, USA
A. Michael Spence, USA
Joseph E. Stiglitz, USA
2001 "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"
James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadde 2000 In the field of microeconometrics, each of the laureates has developed theory and methods that are widely used in the empirical analysis of individual and household behavior, within economics as well as other social sciences
Robert A. Mundell 1999 "for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas"
Amartya Sen, India 1998 "for his contributions to welfare economics"
MERTON, ROBERT C, U.S.A
SCHOLES, MYRON S.
1997 "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives"
MIRRLEES, JAMES A., Great Britain
VICKREY, WILLIAM, Canada
1996 "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"
LUCAS, ROBERT E. Jr., U.S.A 1995 "for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy"
HARSANYI, JOHN C., U.S.A.
NASH, JOHN F., U.S.A.
SELTEN, REINHARD, Germany
1994 "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"
FOGEL, ROBERT W., U.S.A
NORTH, DOUGLASS C.
1993 "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"
BECKER, GARY S., U.S.A. 1992 "for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour"
COASE, RONALD H., Great Britain 1991 "for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy"
MARKOWITZ, HARRY M., U.S.A 1990 "for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics"
MILLER, MERTON H., U.S.A.
SHARPE, WILLIAM F., U.S.A
HAAVELMO, TRYGVE, Norway 1989 "for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures"
ALLAIS, MAURICE, France 1988 "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources"

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