Nobel Prize in Economics

The Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded annually and recognizes individuals in the field of Economics. This Prize was established in memory of Alfred Nobel by the Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank), in 1968.

Nobel Laureates (Click on laureate names for biographies)
Year	Winner	Achievement
2010	Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides	"for their analysis of markets with search frictions"
2009	Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson	"for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" and "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm"
2008	Paul Krugman	"for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity"
2008	Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin, and Roger B. Myerson	"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"
2006	Edmund S. Phelps	"for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy"
2005	Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling	"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis"
2004	Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott	"for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles"
2003	Robert F. Engle III	"for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)"
2003	Clive W.J. Granger	"for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)"
2002	Daniel Kahneman	"for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty"
2002	Vernon L. Smith	"for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms"
2001	George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, and Joseph E. Stiglitz	"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"
2000	James J. Heckman	"for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples"
2000	Daniel L. McFadden	"for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice"
1999	Robert A. Mundell	"for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas"
1998	Amartya Sen	"for his contributions to welfare economics"
1997	Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes	"for a new method to determine the value of derivatives"
1996	James A. Mirrlees and William Vickrey	"for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"
1995	Robert E. Lucas Jr.	"for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy"
1994	John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr., and Reinhard Selten	"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"
1993	Robert W. Fogel and Douglass C. North	"for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"
1992	Gary S. Becker	"for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour"
1991	Ronald H. Coase	"for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy"
1990	Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller, and William F. Sharpe	"for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics"
1989	Trygve Haavelmo	"for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures"
1988	Maurice Allais	"for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources"
1987	Robert M. Solow	"for his contributions to the theory of economic growth"
1986	James M. Buchanan Jr.	"for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making"
1985	Franco Modigliani	"for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets"
1984	Richard Stone	"for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis"
1983	Gerard Debreu	"for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium"
1982	George J. Stigler	"for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation"
1981	James Tobin	"for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices"
1980	Lawrence R. Klein	"for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies"
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1979	Theodore W. Schultz and Sir Arthur Lewis	"for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries"
1978	Herbert A. Simon	"for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations"
1977	Bertil Ohlin and James E. Meade	"for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements"
1976	Milton Friedman	"for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy"
1975	Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich and Tjalling C. Koopmans	"for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources"
1974	Gunnar Myrdal and Friedrich August von Hayek	"for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena"
1973	Wassily Leontief	"for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems"
1972	John R. Hicks and Kenneth J. Arrow	"for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory"
1971	Simon Kuznets	"for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development"
1970	Paul A. Samuelson	"for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science"
1969	Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen	"for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes"