Full list of winners of the Nobel Economics Prize
On October 10, 2022, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, the winners of the 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel are announced by Hans Ellegren, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Tore Ellingsen, and John Hassler, members of the Economics Nobel Prize committee. – On October 10, 2022, a US trio received the Nobel Prize in Economics for their contributions to illuminating the function of banks in the economy. (L-R on exhibit) For “substantially improving our understanding of the function of banks in the economy, notably during financial crises, as well as how to manage financial markets,” the jury cited Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig as winners. Sweden Out / SWEDEN OUT (Image by Anders WIKLUND / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP).
In 1968, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Swedish central bank, Alfred Nobel founded the Nobel Economics Prize, the only Nobel Prize that was not first included in his 1895 will.
Only two women have won the medal since it was originally given out in 1969, and Americans have dominated it ever since.
These are the winners, in order:
Ben Bernanke, Philip Dybvig, and Douglas Diamond in 2022 (US)
Joshua Angrist (Israel-US), David Card (Canada), and Guido Imbens (US-Netherlands)
Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson in 2020 (US)
2019: Esther Duflo (France-US), Michael Kremer, and Abhijit Banerjee (US)
William Nordhaus and Paul Romer in 2018 (US)
Richard Thaler in 2017 (US)
Oliver Hart (US-UK) and Bengt Holmstrom in 2016. (Finland)
Angus Deaton in 2015. (Britain-US)
Jean Tirole in 2014 (France)
2013: Robert Shiller, Lars Peter Hansen, and Eugene Fama (US)
Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley in 2012 (US)
2011: Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent (US)
2010: Dale Mortensen (US), Christopher Pissarides, and Peter Diamond (Cyprus-Britain)
2009: Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom (US)
Paul Krugman in 2008 (US)
2007: Roger Myerson, Eric Maskin, and Leonid Hurwicz (US)
Edmund Phelps in 2006 (US)
Thomas Schelling (US) and Robert J. Aumann in 2005 (US-Israel)
Finn Kydland (Norway) and Edward Prescott in 2004 (US)
2003: Clive Granger and Robert Engle (US) (Britain)
Vernon Smith and Daniel Kahneman (Israel-US) in 2002 (US)
2001: Joseph Stiglitz, A. Michael Spence, and George Akerlof (US)
James Heckman and Daniel McFadden in 2000. (US)
Robert Mundell in 1999 (Canada)
Amartya Sen in 1998 (India)
Robert Merton and Myron Scholes in 1997 (US)
1996: William Vickrey and James Mirrlees (both of Britain) (US)
Robert Lucas Jr., 1995 (US)
1994: Reinhard Selten, John Nash, and John Harsanyi (all from the US) (Germany)
Robert Fogel and Douglass North in 1993 (US)
Gary Becker in 1992 (US)
Ronald Coase in 1991 (Britain)
1990: William Sharpe, Merton Miller, and Harry Markowitz (US)
Trygve Haavelmo in 1989 (Norway)
Maurice Allais in 1988 (France)
Robert Solow in 1987 (US)
James Buchanan in 1986 (US)
Franco Modigliani, 1985 (US)
Richard Stone in 1984 (Britain)
Gerard Debreu in 1983 (US)
George Stigler, 1982 (US)
James Tobin, 1981 (US)
Lawrence Klein, 1980 (US)
Theodore Schultz (US) and Arthur Lewis in 1979 (Britain)
Herbert Simon in 1978 (US)
Sweden’s Bertil Ohlin and James Meade in 1977 (Britain)
Milton Friedman in 1976 (US)
1975: Tjalling Koopmans and Leonid Kantorovich of the Soviet Union (US)
1974: Friedrich August von Hayek and Gunnar Myrdal (both from Sweden) (Britain)
Wassily Leontief in 1973 (US)
John Hicks (Britain) and Kenneth Arrow in 1972 (US)
Simon Kuznets in 1971 (US)
Paul Samuelson in 1970 (US)
1969: Jan Tinbergen and Ragnar Frisch from Norway (Netherlands)
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