Recent winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and their research :
2012 - Americans Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design.
2011 - Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims for their research on cause and effect in the macro economy.
2010 - Americans Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides, of Britain and Cyprus, for their analysis of markets with search frictions.
2009 - Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson for their analysis of economic governance.
2008 - American Paul Krugman for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.
2007 - Americans Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory.
2006 - American Edmund S. Phelps for furthering the understanding of the trade-offs between inflation and its effects on unemployment.
2005 - Robert J. Aumann, of Israel and the United States, and American Thomas C. Schelling, for their work in game-theory analysis.
2004 - Finn E. Kydland, Norway, and Edward C. Prescott, United States, for their contribution to dynamic macroeconomics.
2003 - Robert F. Engle, United States, and Clive W.J. Granger, Britain, for their use of statistical methods for economic time series.
2002 - Daniel Kahneman, United States and Israel, and Vernon L. Smith, United States, for pioneering the use of psychological and experimental economics in decision—making.
2001 - George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz, United States, for research into how the control of information affects markets.
2000 - James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden, United States, for their work in developing theories to help analyze labor data and how people make work and travel decisions.
1999 - Robert A. Mundell, Canada, for innovative analysis of exchange rates that helped lay the intellectual groundwork for Europe’s common currency.
1998 - Amartya Sen, India, for contributions to welfare economics, which help explain the economic mechanisms underlying famines and poverty.
1997 - Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes, United States, for developing a formula for the valuation of stock options.
