Friday 9 October 2009

PREDICTIONS: NOBEL PRIZE FOR ECONOMICS 2009

by Antonio Cappiello

on 12 October the Nobel Prize for Economic Science 2009 will be awarded.


Possible winners:

ERNST FEHR
Professor and Director of the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

JORDI GALI
Professor, Department of Economics, and Director of the Center for Research in International Economics, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

EUGENE FAMA
Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, USA

JEAN TIROLE
director of the Foundation Jean-Jacques Laffont - Toulouse School of Economics, and scientific director of the Industrial Economics Institute (IDEI) in Toulouse

OLIVER HART
Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University, USA

WILLIAM D. NORDHAUS
Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

MATTHEW J. RABIN
Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

JOHN B. TAYLOR
Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, and Bowen H. and Mary Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA, USA

MARK L. GERTLER
Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics, New York University, New York, NY, USA

MARTIN L. WEITZMAN
Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

other possible winners: Paul Romer, Robert Shiller, Robert Barro, Richard Thaler, Oliver Williamson, Graciela Chichilinsky, Nicholas Stern, Hirofuni Uzawa. Jerry Hausman, Halbert White, Dale Jorgenson, Stephen Ross, Paul David, Joel Mokyr, Alan Krueger, Peter Diamond.

[see articles (in Italian) on nobel price 2006 2007 2008]

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