Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1989

Trygve Haavelmo

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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1989 was awarded to Trygve Haavelmo "for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures"

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