Statistics for Nobel Prize in Economics Winners

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1976	"for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilisation policy"	Milton Friedman	82%
2008	"for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity"	Paul Krugman	69%
1974	"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."	Friedrich Hayek	63%
1994	"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games."	John Nash	63%
2017	"for his contributions to behavioural economics"	Richard Thaler	60%
2002	"for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty"	Daniel Kahneman	56%
2001	"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"	Joseph Stiglitz	56%
2009	"for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons"	Elinor Ostrom	54%
1970	"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 Samuelson	54%
1987	"for his contributions to the theory of economic growth"	Robert Solow	54%
2018	"for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis"	Paul Romer	53%
1998	"for his contributions to welfare economics"	Amartya Sen	50%
2002	"for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms"	Vernon Smith	50%
1972	"for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory."	Kenneth Arrow	47%
2015	"for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare"	Angus Deaton	46%
2001	"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"	George Akerlof	46%
1995	"for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy"	Robert Lucas	46%
2018	"for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis"	William Nordhaus	46%
2014	"for his analysis of market power and regulation"	Jean Tirole	45%
1997	"for a new method to determine the value of derivatives."	Myron Scholes	45%
1972	"for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory."	John Hicks	44%
1997	"for a new method to determine the value of derivatives."	Robert Merton	44%
2013	"for their empirical analysis of asset prices."	Robert Shiller	44%
2013	"for their empirical analysis of asset prices."	Eugene Fama	43%
1992	"for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including non-market behaviour"	Gary Becker	43%
1969	"for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes"	Jan Tinbergen	43%
1991	"for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy"	Ronald Coase	43%
2012	"for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design."	Alvin Roth	42%
2016	"for their contributions to contract theory"	Oliver Hart	42%
2010	"for their analysis of markets with search frictions"	Christopher Pissarides	41%
2004	"for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."	Edward Prescott	41%
1983	"for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium"	Gerard Debreu	41%
1971	"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	41%
1990	"for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics"	Merton Miller	40%
2010	"for their analysis of markets with search frictions"	Peter Diamond	40%
1973	"for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems"	Wassily Leontief	40%
2003	"for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)"	Clive Granger	39%
2010	"for their analysis of markets with search frictions"	Dale Mortensen	39%
1974	"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	39%
2009	"for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm"	Oliver Williamson	39%
2011	"for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"	Thomas Sargent	39%
2016	"for their contributions to contract theory"	Bengt Holmström	38%
1986	"for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making"	James Buchanan	38%
2000	"for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples"	James Heckman	38%
1969	"for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes"	Ragnar Frisch	38%
2011	"for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"	Christopher Sims	37%
1981	"for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices"	James Tobin	37%
2013	"for their empirical analysis of asset prices."	Lars Peter Hansen	37%
1977	"for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements"	Bertil Ohlin	36%
1993	"for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"	Douglas North	36%
2004	"for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."	Finn Kydland	36%
1982	"for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation"	George Stigler	36%
2000	"for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice"	Daniel McFadden	35%
1985	"for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets"	Franco Modigliani	35%
1990	"for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics"	Harry Markowitz	35%
2012	"for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design."	Lloyd Shapley	35%
1999	"for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas"	Robert Mundell	35%
2007	"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"	Roger Myerson	35%
2005	"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis."	Thomas Schelling	34%
1979	"for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries."	Arthur Lewis	33%
2006	"for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy"	Edmund Phelps	33%
1978	"for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations"	Herbert Simon	33%
1996	"for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"	James Mirrlees	33%
1988	"for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources"	Maurice Allais	33%
2001	"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"	Michael Spence	33%
1994	"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games."	Reinhart Selten	33%
2003	"for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)"	Robert Engle	33%
1996	"for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"	William Vickrey	32%
1980	"for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies"	Lawrence Klein	31%
2005	"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis."	Robert Aumann	31%
1993	"for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"	Robert Fogel	31%
1975	"for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources"	Tjalling Koopmans	31%
1989	"for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures"	Trygve Haavelmo	31%
1977	"for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements"	James Meade	30%
1994	"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games."	John Harsanyi	30%
2007	"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"	Leonid Hurwicz	29%
1975	"for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources"	Leonid Kantorovich	29%
1979	"for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries."	Theodore Schultz	29%
1984	"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	27%
1990	"for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics"	William Sharpe	26%
2007	"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"	Eric Maskin	24%