Friday, September 28, 2012

Forecasting the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics


The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (aka the Nobel Prize in Economics) will be announced on Monday, October 15, 2012. Of the 68 men and 1 woman who have won the award outright or shared in it since the prize began in 1969, 48 have been Americans. The leading university homes of the winners include the University of Chicago (10), followed by the University of California-Berkeley (5), Columbia (4), Harvard (4), and Cambridge University, England (4).
Now, let's see how well you can forecast. Who will be awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics? Your educated guess must be posted as a comment to this post before the Nobel Prize announcement is made. In the event that more than one person submits identical guesses, the earlier time stamp of the comment will determine the winner. The bonus points will be added to the winner's next exam score following the Nobel announcement on October 15.

Congratulations to Al Roth (Harvard) and Lloyd Shapley (UCLA) as this year's winners of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences for their work on "the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design." 

Unfortunately, no one correctly predicted either of them to win this year.

8 comments:

Yueying Zhu said...

Robert J. Shiller
Anthony B. Atkinson

Hangyu Liu said...


Robert Barro/ Paul Romer

Anonymous said...

zhaoxin lin
Robert J. Shiller
Stephen A. Ross

Luke Badaczewski said...

Angus S. Deaton
Stephen A. Ross

Ally Welch said...

Stephen A. Ross & Sir Anthony B. Atkinson.

Tyler baltzell said...

Samuel bowles

Liu Xiaoyan said...

Sir Anthony B. Atkinson and
Angus S. Deaton

Jiaxin Quan said...

Paul Romer