Nobel Prize Predictions

The Thomson Reuters predictions for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics, which is announced on October 15, are below (last year, my prediction was a Tullock and Krueger prize, so I might as well use it again).

Sir Anthony B. Atkinson
Research Professor, Department of Economics
Oxford University,
Oxford, England U.K.
For studies of income inequality and contributions to welfare state and public sector economics\
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Angus S. Deaton
Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
For empirical research on consumption, income and savings, poverty and health, and well-being
 

Stephen A. Ross
Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics and Professor of Finance
The MIT Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
For his arbitrage pricing theory and other fundamental contributions to finance

 

Robert J. Shiller
Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics
Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics and Professor of Finance
The International Center for Finance
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
For pioneering contributions to financial market volatility and the dynamics of asset prices

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