Robert E Hall and Michael Woodford awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics

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Stockholm: The 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Robert E Hall and Michael Woodford for their work on the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.

The award was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

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The economics prize is formally known as the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Last year, three researchers who studied business innovation won for explaining how new products and inventions promote economic growth and human welfare, even as they leave older companies in the dust.

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