The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

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The Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) Price in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was established in 1968 on the occasion of the Riksbank's 300th anniversary. The Nobel Prize is presented at ceremonies on December 10, the anniversary of Alred Nobel's death.

Year	Winner(s)	Affiliation	Awarded For
2002	Daniel Kahneman	Princeton Univ.	Integrated psychological research into economics
	Vernon L. Smith	George Mason Univ.	Established laboratory experiments in economics
2001	George A. Akerlof	Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA	Analyses of markets with asymmetric information
	A. Michael Spence	Stanford Univ., USA
	Joseph E. Stiglitz	Columbia Univ., USA
2000	James J. Heckman	Univ, of Chicago, USA	Analyzing selective samples
	Daniel L. McFadden	Univ.of California at Berkeley, USA	Analyzing discrete choice
1999	Robert A. Mundell	Columbia University, USA	Monetary and fiscal policy in open economies
1999	Robert A. Mundell	Columbia University, USA	Monetary and fiscal policy in open economies
1998	Amartya Sen	Cambridge Trinity College, UK	Welfare economics
1997	Robert C. Merten	Harvard Univ., USA	Determination of value of derivatives
	Myron S. Scholes	Stanford Univ., USA
1996	James A. Mirrlees	Cambridge Univ., UK	Incentives under asymmetric information
	William Vickery	Columbia Univ., USA
1995	Robert E. Lucas Jr.	Univ. of Chicago, USA	Rational expectations theory
1994	John Harsanyi	Univ. of California, USA	Non-cooperative game theory
	John F. Nash	Princeton Univ., USA
	Reinhard Selten	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat, GER
1993	Robert W. Fogel	Univ. of Chicago, USA	Economic History
	Douglass C. North	Washington Univ., USA
1992	Gary S. Becker	Univ. of Chicago, USA	Nonmarket economic behavior
1991	Ronald H. Coase	Univ. of Chicago, USA	Transaction costs and proprty rights
1990	Harry M. Markowitz	City Univ. of New York, USA	Financial economics
	Merten H. Miller	Univ. of Chicago, USA
	William F. Sharpe	Stanford Univ., USA
1989	Trygve Haavelmo	Univ. of Oslo, NOR	Probability theory
1988	Maurice Allais	Ecole Nationale Superieur des Mines de Paris, FRA	Efficient utilization of resources
1987	Robert M. Solow	Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., USA	Economic growth
1986	James M. Buchanan Jr.	George Mason Univ., USA	Political decision-making
1985	Franco Modigliani	Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., USA	Financial markets and savings
1984	Sir Ricard Stone	Univ. of Cambridge, UK	System of national accounts
1983	Gerard Debreu	Univ. of California, USA	Theory of general equilibrium
1982	George J. Stigler	Univ. of Chicago, USA	Industrial economics and public regulation
1981	James Tobin	Yale Univ., USA	Financial markets
1980	Lawrence R. Klein	Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA	Econometric models
1979	Theodore W. Schultz	Univ. of Chicago, USA	Developing countries
	Sir Arthur Lewis	Princeton Univ., USA
1978	Herbert A. Simon	Carnegie-Mellon Univ., USA	Economic organizations
1977	Bertil Ohlin	Stockholm School of Economics, SWE	International trade
	James E. Meade	Cambridge Univ., UK
1976	Milton Friedman	Univ. of Chicago, USA	Consumption analysis and monetary history
1975	Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich	Moscow Academy of Sciences, USSR	Optimum allocation of resources
	Tjalling C. Koopmans	Yale University, USA
1974	Gunnar Myrdal	Sweden	Interdependence of economic, social, and eocnomic phenomena
	Friedrich August von Hayek	U.K.
1973	Wassily Leontief	Harvard Univ., USA	Input-output theory
1972	Sir John R. Hicks	Oxford All Souls College, UK	General equilibrium and welfare theory
	Kenneth J. Arrow	Harvard Univ., USA
1971	Simon Kuznets	Harvard Univ., USA	Economic growth
1970	Paul A. Samuelson	Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., USA	Developed static and dynamic models
1969	Ragnar Frisch	Oslo Univ., NOR	Developed and applied dynamic models for analysis of economic processes
	Jan Timbergen	Netherlands School of Economics, NETH

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