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Nobel Prize in Economics Winners - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 345 times
- The average score is 35 of 81
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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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 | 83%
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| 2008 | "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" | Paul Krugman | 71%
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| 1994 | "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games." | John Nash | 66%
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| 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%
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| 2001 | "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information" | Joseph Stiglitz | 60%
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| 2017 | "for his contributions to behavioural economics" | Richard Thaler | 60%
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| 2002 | "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty" | Daniel Kahneman | 58%
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| 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 | 58%
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| 1987 | "for his contributions to the theory of economic growth" | Robert Solow | 56%
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| 2009 | "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" | Elinor Ostrom | 55%
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| 2018 | "for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis" | Paul Romer | 54%
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| 1998 | "for his contributions to welfare economics" | Amartya Sen | 53%
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| 2002 | "for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms" | Vernon Smith | 52%
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| 2001 | "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information" | George Akerlof | 50%
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| 1972 | "for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory." | Kenneth Arrow | 49%
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| 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 | 49%
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| 2014 | "for his analysis of market power and regulation" | Jean Tirole | 48%
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| 1997 | "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives." | Myron Scholes | 48%
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| 2015 | "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare" | Angus Deaton | 47%
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| 2013 | "for their empirical analysis of asset prices." | Robert Shiller | 47%
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| 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 | 47%
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| 2018 | "for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis" | William Nordhaus | 47%
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| 2013 | "for their empirical analysis of asset prices." | Eugene Fama | 46%
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| 1972 | "for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory." | John Hicks | 46%
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| 1997 | "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives." | Robert Merton | 46%
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| 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%
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| 1969 | "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes" | Jan Tinbergen | 45%
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| 1983 | "for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium" | Gerard Debreu | 44%
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| 2012 | "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design." | Alvin Roth | 43%
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| 2010 | "for their analysis of markets with search frictions" | Christopher Pissarides | 43%
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| 2004 | "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles." | Edward Prescott | 43%
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| 1990 | "for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics" | Merton Miller | 43%
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| 2016 | "for their contributions to contract theory" | Oliver Hart | 43%
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| 2009 | "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm" | Oliver Williamson | 43%
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| 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 | 43%
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| 1973 | "for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems" | Wassily Leontief | 43%
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| 2003 | "for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)" | Clive Granger | 42%
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| 2010 | "for their analysis of markets with search frictions" | Dale Mortensen | 42%
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| 2010 | "for their analysis of markets with search frictions" | Peter Diamond | 42%
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| 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 | 41%
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| 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 | 41%
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| 1986 | "for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making" | James Buchanan | 41%
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| 1981 | "for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices" | James Tobin | 41%
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| 2011 | "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy" | Thomas Sargent | 41%
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| 2016 | "for their contributions to contract theory" | Bengt Holmström | 40%
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| 1985 | "for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets" | Franco Modigliani | 40%
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| 2000 | "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples" | James Heckman | 40%
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| 2013 | "for their empirical analysis of asset prices." | Lars Peter Hansen | 40%
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| 1969 | "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes" | Ragnar Frisch | 40%
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| 1977 | "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements" | Bertil Ohlin | 39%
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| 2011 | "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy" | Christopher Sims | 39%
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| 2000 | "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice" | Daniel McFadden | 38%
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| 1982 | "for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation" | George Stigler | 38%
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| 1990 | "for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics" | Harry Markowitz | 38%
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| 1978 | "for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations" | Herbert Simon | 38%
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| 1999 | "for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas" | Robert Mundell | 38%
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| 2007 | "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory" | Roger Myerson | 38%
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| 1979 | "for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries." | Arthur Lewis | 37%
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| 2004 | "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles." | Finn Kydland | 37%
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| 2012 | "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design." | Lloyd Shapley | 37%
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| 2006 | "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy" | Edmund Phelps | 36%
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| 1988 | "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources" | Maurice Allais | 36%
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| 2003 | "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)" | Robert Engle | 36%
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| 2005 | "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis." | Thomas Schelling | 36%
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| 1996 | "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information" | William Vickrey | 36%
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| 1996 | "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information" | James Mirrlees | 35%
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| 1980 | "for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies" | Lawrence Klein | 35%
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| 2001 | "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information" | Michael Spence | 35%
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| 1994 | "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games." | Reinhart Selten | 35%
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| 2005 | "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis." | Robert Aumann | 35%
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| 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 | 35%
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| 1975 | "for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources" | Leonid Kantorovich | 34%
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| 1989 | "for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures" | Trygve Haavelmo | 34%
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| 1977 | "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements" | James Meade | 33%
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| 1975 | "for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources" | Tjalling Koopmans | 33%
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| 1994 | "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games." | John Harsanyi | 32%
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| 2007 | "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory" | Leonid Hurwicz | 32%
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| 1979 | "for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries." | Theodore Schultz | 32%
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| 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%
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| 1990 | "for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics" | William Sharpe | 30%
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| 2007 | "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory" | Eric Maskin | 29%
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