The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1995
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Robert E. Lucas Jr.
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1995 was awarded to Robert E. Lucas Jr. "for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy."
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