The

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...

, officially known as The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Swedish: ''Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne''), is an award funded by

Sveriges Riksbank Sveriges Riksbank, or simply the ''Riksbank'', is the central bank of Sweden. It is the world's oldest central bank and the fourth oldest bank in operation. Etymology The first part of the word ''riksbank'', ''riks'', stems from the Swedish w ...

and is annually awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to researchers in the field of

economic sciences Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

. The first prize was awarded in 1969 to

Ragnar Frisch Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973) was an influential Norwegian economist known for being one of the major contributors to establishing economics as a quantitative and statistically informed science in the early 20th ce ...

and

Jan Tinbergen Jan Tinbergen (; ; 12 April 19039 June 1994) was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis o ...

. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award that has varied throughout the years. In 1969, Frisch and Tinbergen were given a combined 375,000 SEK, which is equivalent to 2,871,041 SEK in December 2007. The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. As of the awarding of the 2022 prize, 54 Prizes in Economic Sciences have been given to 92 individuals. As of November 2022, the department of economics with the most affiliated laureates in economic sciences is the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

, with 15 affiliated laureates. As of 2022, the institutions with the most PhD (or equivalent) graduates who went on to receive the prize are Harvard University and MIT (13), followed by the University of Chicago (9). As of 2022, the institutions with the most affiliated faculty at the time of the award are the University of Chicago (15), followed by MIT (8) and Harvard University (7).

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Official website of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

Official website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Official website of the Nobel Foundation
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