April 27, 2018

All Prizes in Economic Sciences Collage: Friedrich August von Hayek, John F. Nash Jr., George J. Stigler, Elinor Ostrom and Milton Friedman All Prizes in Economic Sciences The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded 49 times to 79 Laureates between 1969 and 2017. Click on the links to get more information. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017 Richard H. Thaler "for his contributions to behavioural economics" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016 Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström "for their contributions to contract theory" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015 Angus Deaton "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2014 Jean Tirole "for his analysis of market power and regulation" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013 Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller "for their empirical analysis of asset prices" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2012 Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011 Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010 Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides "for their analysis of markets with search frictions" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009 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" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 Paul Krugman "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007 Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006 Edmund S. Phelps "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005 Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2004 Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2003 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)" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2002 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" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001 George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2000 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" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1999 Robert A. Mundell "for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998 Amartya Sen "for his contributions to welfare economics" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1997 Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1996 James A. Mirrlees and William Vickrey "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1995 Robert E. Lucas Jr. "for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994 John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr. and Reinhard Selten "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1993 Robert W. Fogel and Douglass C. North "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1992 Gary S. Becker "for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1991 Ronald H. Coase "for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1990 Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller and William F. Sharpe "for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1989 Trygve Haavelmo "for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1988 Maurice Allais "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1987 Robert M. Solow "for his contributions to the theory of economic growth" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1986 James M. Buchanan Jr. "for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1985 Franco Modigliani "for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1984 Richard Stone "for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1983 Gerard Debreu "for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1982 George J. Stigler "for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1981 James Tobin "for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1980 Lawrence R. Klein "for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1979 Theodore W. Schultz and Sir Arthur Lewis "for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1978 Herbert A. Simon "for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1977 Bertil Ohlin and James E. Meade "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1976 Milton Friedman "for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1975 Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich and Tjalling C. Koopmans "for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974 Gunnar Myrdal and Friedrich August von Hayek "for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1973 Wassily Leontief "for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972 John R. Hicks and Kenneth J. Arrow "for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1971 Simon Kuznets "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1970 Paul A. Samuelson "for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1969 Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes" Share this: 553 To cite this page MLA style: "All Prizes in Economic Sciences". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 27 Apr 2018.

All Prizes in Economic Sciences

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded 49 times to 79 Laureates between 1969 and 2017. Click on the links to get more information.

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017

Richard H. Thaler

"for his contributions to behavioural economics"

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

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström

"for their contributions to contract theory"

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

Angus Deaton

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

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

Jean Tirole

"for his analysis of market power and regulation"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013

Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller

"for their empirical analysis of asset prices"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2012

Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley

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

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011

Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims

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

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010

Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides

"for their analysis of markets with search frictions"

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

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"

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

Paul Krugman

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

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

Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson

"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006

Edmund S. Phelps

"for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005

Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling

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

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2004

Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott

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

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2003

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)"

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

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"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001

George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz

"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2000

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"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1999

Robert A. Mundell

"for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998

Amartya Sen

"for his contributions to welfare economics"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1997

Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes

"for a new method to determine the value of derivatives"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1996

James A. Mirrlees and William Vickrey

"for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1995

Robert E. Lucas Jr.

"for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994

John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr. and Reinhard Selten

"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1993

Robert W. Fogel and Douglass C. North

"for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1992

Gary S. Becker

"for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1991

Ronald H. Coase

"for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1990

Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller and William F. Sharpe

"for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics"

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

Trygve Haavelmo

"for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1988

Maurice Allais

"for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1987

Robert M. Solow

"for his contributions to the theory of economic growth"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1986

James M. Buchanan Jr.

"for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1985

Franco Modigliani

"for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1984

Richard Stone

"for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis"