Nobel Prize

Transcript from an interview with Professor Robert W. Fogel at the 1st Meeting of Laureates in Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany, September 1-4, 2004. Interviewer is freelance journalist Marika Griehsel. Professor Robert Fogel, very welcome to this interview. It’s a great honour…

I was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, a little coal mining town in Eastern Pennsylvania, where my father owned a small business. He had first gone into business for himself after leaving Montreal and his family for the United States when he was only sixteen-years old. He moved many times in the eastern United States before…

The Laureates , New York University , University of California, San Diego ARCH Engle, R.F., “GARCH101: The Use of ARCH/GARCH Models in Applied Econometrics,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 4, Fall 2001, pp. 157–168. Poon, S-H., and C.W.J. Granger, “Forecasting Financial Market Volatility,” Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 41, No. 2, June 2003,…

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Thomas J. Sargent did not submit an autobiography.

My grandfathers were both immigrants to the US, one from Estonia, then part of the Russian empire, and the other from England. The Estonian, William Morris Leiserson, was Jewish. He fled Estonia in 1890 at the age of seven, through a forest in the dark of night, with his mother and two brothers. The family…

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14 October 1975 has decided to award the Prize in Economic Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 1975 in equal shares to Professor Leonid Kantorovich, USSR, and Professor Tjalling C. Koopmans, USA, for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources. Optimum Allocation of Resources Leonid Kantorovich and Tjalling Koopmans have both…

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