Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2015 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, presented by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 12 October 2015.

Interview

Following the announcement, Jakob Svensson, member of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was interviewed by freelance journalist Henrik Höjer about the 2015 Prize in Economic Sciences.

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