Nobel Prize Winners in Economics - Statistics

General Stats
  • This quiz has been taken 228 times
  • The average score is 17 of 78
Answer Stats
Year Nationality Reason for Award Winner % Correct
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
72%
Austrian, British Friedrich August von Hayek
51%
2002 Israeli, American "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty" Daniel Kahneman
49%
German John F. Nash Jr.
49%
1987 American "for his contributions to the theory of economic growth" Robert M. Solow
47%
American Joseph E. Stiglitz
45%
2008 American "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" Paul Krugman
45%
1998 Indian "for his contributions to welfare economics" Amartya Sen
38%
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%
2014 French "for his analysis of market power and regulation" Jean Tirole
34%
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.
33%
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%
2001 American "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information" George A. Akerlof
31%
2009 American "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" Elinor Ostrom
28%
2015 British, American "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare" Angus Deaton
27%
2013 American "for their empirical analysis of asset prices" Eugene F. Fama
27%
American Kenneth J. Arrow
27%
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
27%
Dutch Jan Tinbergen
25%
2009 American "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm" Oliver E. Williamson
24%
1969 Norwegian "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes" Ragnar Frisch
24%
1973 American/Russian "for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems" Wassily Leontief
24%
Swedish Bertil Ohlin
23%
1985 Italian "for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets" Franco Modigliani
23%
American Peter A. Diamond
23%
American Robert J. Shiller
23%
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
22%
1997 Canadian/American "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives" Myron S. Scholes
22%
2010 Cypriot/British "for their analysis of markets with search frictions" Chistopher A. Pissarides
20%
1981 American "for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices" James Tobin
20%
1972 British "for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory" John R. Hicks
20%
American Robert C. Merton
20%
American A. Michael Spence
19%
2016 Finnish "for their contributions to contract theory" Bengt Holmstrom
19%
American Lars Peter Hansen
19%
American Edward C. Prescott
18%
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
18%
1988 French "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources" Maurice Allais
18%
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
18%
1978 American "for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations" Herbert A. Simon
17%
2000 American "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples" James J. Heckman
17%
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%
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
17%
Dutch, American Tjalling Koopmans
17%
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
16%
2004 Norwegian "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles" Finn E. Kydland
16%
1982 American "for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation" George J. Stigler
16%
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
16%
1975 Soviet "for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources" Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich
16%
British, American Oliver Hart
16%
Saint Lucian Sir Arthur Lewis
16%
2006 American "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy" Edmund S. Phelps
15%
American Merton Miller
15%
2005 Israeli/American "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis" Robert J. Aumann
15%
American Thomas C. Schelling
15%
2011 American "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy" Thomas J. Sargent
15%
2003 British "for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)" Clive W.J. Granger
14%
American Dale T. Mortensen
14%
1977 British "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements" James Meade
14%
1996 British "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information" James Mirrlees
14%
1989 Norwegian "for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures" Trygve Haavelmo
14%
2007 Polish "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory" Leonid Hurwicz
13%
American William F. Sharpe
13%
American Christopher A. Sims
11%
2000 American "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice" Daniel L. McFadden
11%
1990 American "for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics" Harry Markowitz
11%
1980 American "for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies" Lawrence R. Klein
11%
American Lloyd S. Shapley
11%
American Roger B. Myerson
11%
1994 Hungarian/American "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games" John C. Harsanyi
10%
American Robert W. Fogel
10%
American Reinhard Selten
9%
2003 American "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)" Robert F. Engle III
9%
Canadian William Vickrey
9%
2012 American "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design" Alvin E. Roth
8%
American Eric S. Maskin
8%
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
7%
1979 American "for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries" Theodore Schultz
7%
No matching quizzes found
Score Distribution
Percent of People with Each Score
Percentile by Number Answered
Your Score History
You have not taken this quiz