Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2018 Prize in Economic Sciences by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 8 October 2018.

Interview about the awarded work

“It’s important that great technological ideas are spread to other countries”

Immediately following the announcement, Professor Per Krusell, Member of the Prize Committee for Economic Sciences, was interviewed by freelance journalist Joanna Rose regarding the 2018 Sveriges Riksbanks Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

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