Statistics for Nobel Prize in Economics Winners

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HintAnswer% Correct
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
83%
2008"for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity"Paul Krugman
71%
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
65%
1994"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games."John Nash
65%
2017"for his contributions to behavioural economics"Richard Thaler
61%
2002"for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty"Daniel Kahneman
58%
2001"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"Joseph Stiglitz
58%
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
56%
1987"for his contributions to the theory of economic growth"Robert Solow
56%
2009"for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons"Elinor Ostrom
55%
2018"for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis"Paul Romer
55%
1998"for his contributions to welfare economics"Amartya Sen
53%
2002"for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms"Vernon Smith
52%
2001"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"George Akerlof
49%
1972"for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory."Kenneth Arrow
49%
2015"for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare"Angus Deaton
48%
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
48%
2018"for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis"William Nordhaus
48%
2014"for his analysis of market power and regulation"Jean Tirole
47%
1997"for a new method to determine the value of derivatives."Myron Scholes
47%
1972"for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory."John Hicks
46%
1997"for a new method to determine the value of derivatives."Robert Merton
46%
2013"for their empirical analysis of asset prices."Robert Shiller
46%
2012"for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design."Alvin Roth
45%
2013"for their empirical analysis of asset prices."Eugene Fama
45%
1992"for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including non-market behaviour"Gary Becker
45%
1969"for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes"Jan Tinbergen
45%
2016"for their contributions to contract theory"Oliver Hart
45%
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
45%
2010"for their analysis of markets with search frictions"Christopher Pissarides
44%
2004"for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."Edward Prescott
44%
1983"for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium"Gerard Debreu
44%
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
44%
1990"for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics"Merton Miller
43%
2010"for their analysis of markets with search frictions"Peter Diamond
43%
1973"for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems"Wassily Leontief
43%
2003"for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)"Clive Granger
42%
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
42%
2009"for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm"Oliver Williamson
42%
2011"for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"Thomas Sargent
42%
2016"for their contributions to contract theory"Bengt Holmström
41%
2010"for their analysis of markets with search frictions"Dale Mortensen
41%
1986"for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making"James Buchanan
41%
2000"for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples"James Heckman
41%
1969"for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes"Ragnar Frisch
41%
1977"for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements"Bertil Ohlin
39%
2011"for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"Christopher Sims
39%
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
39%
1981"for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices"James Tobin
39%
2013"for their empirical analysis of asset prices."Lars Peter Hansen
39%
2004"for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."Finn Kydland
38%
1985"for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets"Franco Modigliani
38%
1982"for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation"George Stigler
38%
2012"for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design."Lloyd Shapley
38%
2000"for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice"Daniel McFadden
37%
1990"for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics"Harry Markowitz
37%
1999"for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas"Robert Mundell
37%
2007"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"Roger Myerson
37%
2005"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis."Thomas Schelling
37%
1979"for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries."Arthur Lewis
36%
1978"for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations"Herbert Simon
36%
1988"for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources"Maurice Allais
36%
2003"for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)"Robert Engle
36%
2006"for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy"Edmund Phelps
35%
1996"for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"James Mirrlees
35%
2001"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"Michael Spence
35%
1994"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games."Reinhart Selten
35%
1996"for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"William Vickrey
35%
1980"for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies"Lawrence Klein
34%
2005"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis."Robert Aumann
34%
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
34%
1975"for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources"Tjalling Koopmans
34%
1989"for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures"Trygve Haavelmo
34%
1977"for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements"James Meade
33%
1994"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games."John Harsanyi
32%
2007"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"Leonid Hurwicz
32%
1975"for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources"Leonid Kantorovich
32%
1979"for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries."Theodore Schultz
32%
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
30%
1990"for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics"William Sharpe
29%
2007"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"Eric Maskin
28%

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