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Statistics for Nobel Prize Winners in Economics
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- This quiz has been taken 134 times
- The average score is 18 of 78
Answer Stats
| Year | Nationality | Reason for Award | Winner | % Correct |
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| 1976 | American | "for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy" | Milton Friedman | 74%
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| 2002 | Israeli, American | "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty" | Daniel Kahneman | 57%
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| Austrian, British | Friedrich August von Hayek | 53%
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| German | John F. Nash Jr. | 51%
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| American | Joseph E. Stiglitz | 47%
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| 2008 | American | "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" | Paul Krugman | 45%
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| 1987 | American | "for his contributions to the theory of economic growth" | Robert M. Solow | 45%
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| 1998 | Indian | "for his contributions to welfare economics" | Amartya Sen | 43%
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| 1970 | American | "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" | Paul A Samuelson | 38%
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| 1995 | American | "for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy" | Robert E. Lucas Jr. | 36%
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| 2015 | British, American | "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare" | Angus Deaton | 34%
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| 2001 | American | "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information" | George A. Akerlof | 34%
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| 1991 | British | "for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy" | Ronald H. Coase | 32%
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| 2002 | American | "for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms" | Vernon L. Smith | 32%
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| 2009 | American | "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" | Elinor Ostrom | 30%
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| 2013 | American | "for their empirical analysis of asset prices" | Eugene F. Fama | 30%
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| 1985 | Italian | "for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets" | Franco Modigliani | 30%
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| Dutch | Jan Tinbergen | 30%
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| 2014 | French | "for his analysis of market power and regulation" | Jean Tirole | 30%
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| American | Kenneth J. Arrow | 30%
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| Swedish | Bertil Ohlin | 28%
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| 1969 | Norwegian | "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes" | Ragnar Frisch | 28%
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| American | Robert J. Shiller | 28%
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| 1973 | American/Russian | "for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems" | Wassily Leontief | 26%
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| 2016 | Finnish | "for their contributions to contract theory" | Bengt Holmstrom | 25%
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| 2010 | Cypriot/British | "for their analysis of markets with search frictions" | Chistopher A. Pissarides | 25%
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| 1992 | American | "for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour" | Gary S. Becker | 25%
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| 1997 | Canadian/American | "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives" | Myron S. Scholes | 25%
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| American | Peter A. Diamond | 25%
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| American | Robert C. Merton | 25%
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| 1974 | Sweden | "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" | Gunnar Myrdal | 23%
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| 1972 | British | "for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory" | John R. Hicks | 23%
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| 2009 | American | "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm" | Oliver E. Williamson | 23%
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| American | A. Michael Spence | 21%
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| American | Edward C. Prescott | 21%
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| 1981 | American | "for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices" | James Tobin | 21%
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| 2000 | American | "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples" | James J. Heckman | 19%
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| 1975 | Soviet | "for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources" | Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich | 19%
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| 1988 | French | "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources" | Maurice Allais | 19%
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| American | Merton Miller | 19%
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| British, American | Oliver Hart | 19%
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| 1999 | Canadian | "for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas" | Robert A. Mundell | 19%
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| Saint Lucian | Sir Arthur Lewis | 19%
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| American | Dale T. Mortensen | 17%
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| 1993 | American | "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change" | Douglass C. North | 17%
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| 2006 | American | "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy" | Edmund S. Phelps | 17%
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| 1982 | American | "for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation" | George J. Stigler | 17%
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| 1983 | French, American | "for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium" | Gerard Debreu | 17%
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| 1986 | American | "for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making" | James M. Buchanan Jr. | 17%
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| American | Lars Peter Hansen | 17%
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| Dutch, American | Tjalling Koopmans | 17%
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| 1989 | Norwegian | "for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures" | Trygve Haavelmo | 17%
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| 2003 | British | "for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)" | Clive W.J. Granger | 15%
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| 2004 | Norwegian | "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles" | Finn E. Kydland | 15%
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| 1978 | American | "for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations" | Herbert A. Simon | 15%
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| 1977 | British | "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements" | James Meade | 15%
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| 1996 | British | "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information" | James Mirrlees | 15%
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| 2007 | Polish | "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory" | Leonid Hurwicz | 15%
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| 1971 | American | "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" | Simon Kuznets | 15%
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| American | Thomas C. Schelling | 15%
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| 2011 | American | "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy" | Thomas J. Sargent | 15%
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| 2000 | American | "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice" | Daniel L. McFadden | 13%
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| 1994 | Hungarian/American | "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games" | John C. Harsanyi | 13%
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| 1980 | American | "for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies" | Lawrence R. Klein | 13%
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| 2005 | Israeli/American | "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis" | Robert J. Aumann | 13%
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| 2012 | American | "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design" | Alvin E. Roth | 11%
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| American | Christopher A. Sims | 11%
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| 1990 | American | "for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics" | Harry Markowitz | 11%
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| American | Lloyd S. Shapley | 11%
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| American | Reinhard Selten | 11%
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| American | Robert W. Fogel | 11%
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| American | Roger B. Myerson | 11%
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| American | William F. Sharpe | 9%
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| Canadian | William Vickrey | 9%
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| American | Eric S. Maskin | 8%
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| 2003 | American | "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)" | Robert F. Engle III | 8%
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| 1979 | American | "for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries" | Theodore Schultz | 8%
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| 1984 | British | "for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis" | Richard Stone | 6%
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