Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1996

James A. Mirrlees

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Prize share: 1/2

William Vickrey

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Prize share: 1/2

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1996 was awarded jointly to James A. Mirrlees and William Vickrey "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"

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