Prize announcement

Announcement of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 11 October 2021.

“It’s totally revolutionised the way we do empirical work”

Immediately following the announcement, Eva Mörk, member of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences, spoke to journalist Joanna Rose about the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

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