Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig win 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics
NEW DELHI,OCT 10: Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics for research on banks and financial crises.
The committee said that the three laureates have significantly improved our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises, and an important finding in their research is why avoiding bank collapses is vital.
“Modern banking research clarifies why we have banks, how to make them less vulnerable in crises and how bank collapses exacerbate financial crises. The foundations of this research were laid by Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig in the early 1980s. Their analyses have been of great practical importance in regulating financial markets and dealing with financial crises,” the Nobel announcement read.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded in memory of Alfred Nobel. While Alfred Nobel did not mention the economics prize in his will, the Sveriges Riksbank established the award in 1968 and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was given the task of selecting the Laureates in Economic Sciences, starting in 1969.
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The 2021 Economic Nobel was given to David Card, Joshua D Angrist, Guido W Imbens. While one-half of the prize was given to David Card for his empirical contributions to labour economics, the other half was given jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.
The announcement of the Economic Nobel follows the Nobel Peace Prize, which has been given to civil rights campaigners from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. The Nobel Committee gave the Peace Prize to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial, and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties.
-The India Today
