Monday, October 12, 2026

Two Prominent Macroeconomists win 2026 Nobel Prize

A Nobel prize for how to keep economies on even keel 
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/10/12/a-nobel-prize-for-how-to-keep-economies-on-even-keel
Two “New Keynesians”, Robert Hall and Michael Woodford, win the highest honor in economics.


The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2026 to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization.”
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2026/10/popular-economicsciencesprize2026.pdf
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2026/10/advanced-economicsciencesprize2026.pdf