Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences​: On Monday, 10 October 2022, the 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Ben S Bernanke, Douglas W Diamond and Philip H Dybvig.
- The laureates will be awarded with the Nobel prize for research on banks and financial crises.
About Ben S.Bernanke:
- Ben Shalom Bernanke is an American economist, who served as the 14th chairman from 2006 to 2014 of the federal Reserve.
- He was born on December 13, 1953.
- He was a tenured professor at Princeton University before serving as a Federal Reserve chairman.
- From 1996 to September 2002, he served as the economics department's chairman as well.
- He was selected for a second term Federal Reserve chairman on January 28, 2010.
- He was nominated again by former president Barack Obama, who later described him as "the epitome of calm."
About Douglas Warren Diamond:
- Born in 1953, Warren is the Merton H.Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
- He specializes in the study of financial intermediates, liquidity and financial crises.
- He is also a former president of the American Finance Association and the Western Finance Association.
- He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society and the American Finance Association.
About Philip H.Dybvig:
- Philip H.Dybvig is an American economist who is the Boatmen's Bancshares Professor of Banking and Finance at the Olin Business School of Washington University in St. louis.
- He was born on May 22, 1955.
Nobel economics prize: The 10 most recent winners
Year |
Winners |
Nationality |
Contribution |
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2013 |
Eugene F. Fama |
US |
empirical analysis of asset prices |
Lars P. Hansen |
Us |
empirical analysis of asset prices |
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Robert J. Shiller |
US |
empirical analysis of asset prices |
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2014 |
Jean Tirole |
France |
analysis of market power and regulation |
2015 |
Angus S. Deaton |
UK |
analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare |
2016 |
Oliver Hart |
UK |
contributions to contract theory |
Bengt Holmström |
Finland |
contributions to contract theory |
|
2017 |
Richard H. Thaler |
US |
contributions to behavioral economics |
2018 |
William D. Nordhaus |
US |
integration of climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis |
Paul M. Romer |
US |
integration of technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis |
|
2019 |
Abhijit Banerjee |
US |
experimental approach to alleviating global poverty |
Esther Duflo |
France/US |
experimental approach to alleviating global poverty |
|
Michael Kremer |
US |
experimental approach to alleviating global poverty |
|
2020 |
Paul Milgrom |
US |
improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats |
Robert B. Wilson |
US |
improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats |
|
2021 |
Joshua Angrist |
US/Israel |
methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships |
David Card |
Canada/US |
empirical contributions to labour economics |
|
Guido Imbens |
Netherlands/US |
methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships |
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2022 |
Ben S. Bernanke |
US |
for research on banks and financial crises |
Douglas Diamond |
US |
for research on banks and financial crises |
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Philip H. Dybvig |
US |
for research on banks and financial crises |
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