All Nobel Prizes in Economic Sciences 2
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (also known as Sveriges Riksbank Prize) in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded 51 times to 84 Laureates between 1969 and 2019.
In the previous blog post, we introduced the the names of 22 Laureates between 1969 and 1990.
Here you can find the other 28 names of Laureates between 1991 and 2006:
| Year | Laureates | Country | Key Contribution |
|
1991 |
Ronald H. Coase | UK | Important contributions on the borderline between economics, law and organization. |
| 1992 | Gary S. Becker | USA | Extended the domain of economic theory to aspects of human behavior which had previously been dealt with by other social science disciplines such as sociology, demography and criminology. |
| 1993 | Robert W. Fogel
|
USA
|
Clarified the role of the railways for the development of the economy in the United States, and the economic role of slavery.
Shed new light on the economic development in Europe and the United States before and in connection with the industrial revolution. He emphasized the role of property rights and institutions. |
| 1994 |
|
Hungary
USA
Poland |
For their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games |
| 1995 | Robert E. Lucas Jr.
|
USA | Development and application of the theory of rational expectations in macroeconomic analysis. |
| 1996 | James A. Mirrlees
|
Scotland
Canada
|
Pioneering work on economic incentives in situations involving incomplete, or asymmetrical, information. Specialized in optimal taxation. Developed methods of analyzing the problems of incomplete, or asymmetrical, information. Specialized in auction theory. |
| 1997 |
|
USA
Canada |
For a new method to determine the value of derivatives
|
| 1998 | Amartya Sen | India | Research on fundamental problems in welfare economics. Studies of social choice, welfare measurement, and poverty. |
| 1999 | Robert A. Mundell | Canada | Analysed international macroeconomic policy and demonstrated the importance of the exchange rate regime, and how barriers to migration and capital movements stimulate commodity trade. |
| 2000 | James J. Heckman
|
USA |
Development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples. Development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice
|
| 2001 |
|
USA |
Analyses of markets with asymmetric information |
| 2002 |
|
Israel
USA |
Integrated economic analysis with fundamental insights from cognitive psychology, in particular regarding behavior under uncertainty, thereby laying the foundation for a new field of research.
Developed methods for laboratory experiments in economics, which has helped our understanding of economic behavior. |
| 2003 | Robert F. Engle III
|
USA
UK |
Methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)
Methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration) |
| 2004 |
|
Norway
USA |
For their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles |
| 2005 | Germany
USA |
For having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis | |
| 2006 | Edmund S. Phelps | USA |
Deepened our understanding of the relation between short-run and long-run effects of macroeconomic policy. |
The rest will be published in the next blog post.
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