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⁠Robert ⁠Hall, Michael Woodford win 2026 Nobel Prize in economics

⁠Robert ⁠Hall, Michael Woodford win 2026 Nobel Prize in economics
South China Morning Post Monday 12 October 2026, 10:05 UTC By Agence France-Presse 1 min read
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Michael Woodford have won the 2026 Nobel economics prize “for microeconomic foundations ‌of macroeconomic stabilisation”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. Hall is affiliated with Stanford University in California, and Woodford with Columbia University in New York. The prestigious award, ⁠formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank ‌Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory ‌of Alfred Nobel, is the ⁠final ⁠prize to be given ‌out this year.

⁠Robert ⁠Hall ⁠and Michael Woodford have won the 2026 Nobel economics prize “for microeconomic foundations ‌of macroeconomic stabilisation”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. Hall is affiliated with Stanford University in California, and Woodford with Columbia University in New York. The prestigious award, ⁠formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank ‌Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory ‌of Alfred Nobel, is the ⁠final ⁠prize to be given ‌out this year. The announcement by the...
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