The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded 48 times to 78 Laureates between 1969 and 2016. Click on the links to get more information.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016
Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström
“for their contributions to contract theory”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015
“for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2014
“for his analysis of market power and regulation”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013
Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller
“for their empirical analysis of asset prices”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2012
Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley
“for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011
Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims
“for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010
Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides
“for their analysis of markets with search frictions”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009
“for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons”
“for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008
“for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007
Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson
“for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006
“for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005
Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling
“for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 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”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2003
“for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)”
“for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2002
“for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty”
“for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001
George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz
“for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2000
“for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples”
“for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1999
“for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998
“for his contributions to welfare economics”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1997
Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes
“for a new method to determine the value of derivatives”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1996
James A. Mirrlees and William Vickrey
“for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1995
“for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994
John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr. and Reinhard Selten
“for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 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”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1992
“for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1991
“for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1990
Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller and William F. Sharpe
“for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1989
“for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1988
“for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1987
“for his contributions to the theory of economic growth”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1986
“for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1985
“for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1984
“for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1983
“for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1982
“for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1981
“for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1980
“for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 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”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1978
“for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1977
Bertil Ohlin and James E. Meade
“for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1976
“for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1975
Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich and Tjalling C. Koopmans
“for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 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”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1973
“for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972
John R. Hicks and Kenneth J. Arrow
“for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1971
“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”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1970
“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”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1969
Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen
“for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes”
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