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Nobel honors economists’ stability models

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel economics prize to U.S. economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford for models that helped policymakers stabilize economies.

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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.”

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October 12, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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