Nobel Prize

English 14 October 1998 has decided to award the 1998 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, to Professor Amartya Sen, Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K. (citizen of India) for his contributions to welfare economics. Social Choice, Welfare Distributions, and Poverty Amartya Sen has made several key contributions to the research…

Swedish 14 oktober 1997 har beslutat utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne år 1997 till Professor Robert C. Merton, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA och Professor Myron S. Scholes, Stanford University, Stanford, USA för en ny metod att värdera derivatinstrument. Robert C. Merton och Myron S. Scholes har, tillsammans med den…

English 14 October 1997 has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1997, to Professor Robert C. Merton, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA and Professor Myron S. Scholes, Stanford University, Stanford, USA for a new method to determine the value of derivatives. Robert C. Merton and Myron…

English 8 October 1996 has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1996, to Professor James A. Mirrlees, University of Cambridge, U.K. and Professor William Vickrey, Columbia University, New York, USA, (deceased October 10, 1996) for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under…

Swedish 8 oktober 1996 har beslutat utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne år 1996 till Professor James A. Mirrlees, University of Cambridge, U.K. och Professor William Vickrey, Columbia University, New York, USA, (avliden den 10 oktober 1996) för fundamentala bidrag till den ekonomiska teorin för incitament vid asymmetrisk information. Information…

11 October 1994 has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1994, jointly to Professor John C. Harsanyi, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, Dr. John F. Nash, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, Professor Dr. Reinhard Selten, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany, for their pioneering analysis of…

12 October 1993 THIS YEAR’s PRIZEWINNERS ARE LEADING FIGURES WITHIN THE FIELD OF “NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY” has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 1993 jointly to Professor Robert W. Fogel, University of Chicago, USA, and Professor Douglass C. North, Washington University, St. Louis, USA,…

13 October 1992 THIS YEAR’s LAUREATE HAS EXTENDED THE SPHERE OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS TO NEW AREAS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND RELATIONS. has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1992, to Professor Gary S. Becker, University of Chicago, USA, for having extended the domain of microeconomic…

15 October 1991 has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1991, to Professor Ronald Coase, University of Chicago, USA, for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy. Breakthrough…

16 October 1990 THIS YEAR’S LAUREATES ARE PIONEERS IN THE THEORY OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS AND CORPORATE FINANCE has decided to award the 1990 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with one third each, to Professor Harry Markowitz, City University of New York, USA, Professor Merton Miller, University of Chicago, USA, Professor William Sharpe, Stanford…