Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prizes Economic Sciences

2000
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
James J. Heckman

"for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples"
Daniel L. McFadden

"for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice"

2001
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
George A. Akerlof

"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"
A. Michael Spence

"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"
Joseph E. Stiglitz

"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"

2002
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Daniel Kahneman

"for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty"
Vernon L. Smith

"for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms"

2003
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Robert F. Engle III

"for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)"
Clive W.J. Granger

"for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)"

2004
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Finn E. Kydland

"for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles"
Edward C. Prescott

"for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles"

2005
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Robert J. Aumann

"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis"
Thomas C. Schelling

"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis"

2006
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Edmund S. Phelps

"for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy"

2007
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Leonid Hurwicz

"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"
Eric S. Maskin

"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"
Roger B. Myerson

"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"

2008
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Paul Krugman

"for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity"

2009
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Elinor Ostrom

"for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons"
Oliver E. Williamson

"for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm"

2010
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Peter A. Diamond

"for their analysis of markets with search frictions"
Dale T. Mortensen

"for their analysis of markets with search frictions"
Christopher A. Pissarides

"for their analysis of markets with search frictions"

2011
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Thomas J. Sargent

"for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"
Christopher A. Sims

"for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"

2012
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Alvin E. Roth

"for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design"
Lloyd S. Shapley

"for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design"

2013
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Eugene F. Fama

"for their empirical analysis of asset prices"
Lars Peter Hansen

"for their empirical analysis of asset prices"
Robert J. Shiller

"for their empirical analysis of asset prices"

2014
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Jean Tirole

"for his analysis of market power and regulation"

2015
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Angus Deaton

"for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare"

2016
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Oliver Hart

"for their contributions to contract theory"
Bengt Holmström

"for their contributions to contract theory"

2017
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Richard H. Thaler

"for his contributions to behavioural economics"

2018
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
William D. Nordhaus

"for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis"
Paul M. Romer

"for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis"

2019
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Abhijit Banerjee

"for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty"
Esther Duflo

"for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty"
Michael Kremer

"for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty"

2020
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Paul R. Milgrom

"for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats"
Robert B. Wilson

"for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats"

2021
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
David Card

"for his empirical contributions to labour economics"
Joshua D. Angrist

"for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships"
Guido W. Imbens

"for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships"

2022
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Ben Bernanke

"for research on banks and financial crises"
Douglas Diamond

"for research on banks and financial crises"
Philip Dybvig

"for research on banks and financial crises"

2023
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Claudia Goldin

"for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes"

2024
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Daron Acemoglu

"for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity"
Simon Johnson

"for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity"
James A. Robinson

"for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity"

2025
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel