Premio Nobel de Economía 2020

Y el Premio Nobel de economía va este año para dos profesores de Stanford por «las mejoras sobre las teorías de las subastas, y la invención de nuevos formatos de subastas» […] The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020 to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats”. The new auction formats are a beautiful example of how basic research can subsequently generate inventions that benefit society. The unusual feature of this example is that the same people developed the theory and the practical applications. The Laureates’ ground-breaking research about auctions has thus been of great benefit, for buyers, sellers and society as a whole.[…]   Eldiario.es | Paul R. Milgrom y Robert B. Wilson se llevan el Premio Nobel de Economía 2020

Premio Nobel de Economía 2019

El Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2019; para los amigos, El Premio Nobel de Economía de 2019 […] Their research is helping us fight poverty. The research conducted by this year’s Laureates has considerably improved our ability to fight global poverty. In just two decades, their new experiment-based approach has transformed development economics, which is now a flourishing field of research. El problema en la educación no es la falta de recursos, sino que la enseñanza no está suficientemente adaptada a las necesidades de los alumnos. […] experiments have shown that the primary problem in many low-income countries is not a lack of resources. Instead, the biggest problem is that teaching is not sufficiently adapted to the pupils’ needs […] nobelprize.org The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019

Premio Nobel de Economía 2018

El Premio Nobel de Economía de 2018 ha sido otorgado a Nordhaus y a Paul Romer. A ambos por integrar en el análisis macro aspectos importantes: uno el cambio climático y otro el otro la innovación tecnológica. […] divided equally between William D. Nordhaus «for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis» and Paul M. Romer «for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis.» […] Integrating innovation and climate with economic growth nobelprize.org The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018

Nobel de Economía 2015 – Angus Deaton

Una buena reseña del escocés Angus Deaton, nobel de economía 2015, «for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare».   Nobel Prize winner is Angus Deaton xxx I’ll be updating the relevant posts throughout the morning, so hit refresh in your browser to read more. The first versions of those posts will have much less than what is to follow. marginalrevolution.com. La nota de prensa del Banco Central de Suecia: The work for which Deaton is now being honored revolves around three central questions: How do consumers distribute their spending among different goods? How much of society’s income is spent and how much is saved? How do we best measure and analyze welfare and poverty?