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English Information for the Public For more than two decades, the theory of markets with asymmetric information has been a vital and lively field of economic research. Today, models with imperfect information are indispensable instruments in the researcher’s toolbox. Countless applications extend from traditional agricultural markets in developing countries to modern financial markets in developed…

Professor Jörgen W. Weibull delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2001 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Presentation Speech by Professor Jörgen W. Weibull of the , December 10, 2001. Translation of the Swedish text. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Nobel…

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Family backgroundI was born on June 17, 1940 in New Haven, Connecticut. My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. They had met ten years earlier at a departmental picnic when my mother had been a chemistry graduate student at Yale. My brother, Carl, was two years older. My father,…

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English October 11, 2000 has decided that the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2000, will be shared between James J. Heckman University of Chicago, USA, and Daniel L. McFadden University of California, Berkeley, USA. In the field of microeconometrics, each of the laureates has developed theory and methods…