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Robert Hall and Michael Woodford received the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on macroeconomic models that help stabilize economic fluctuations through effective fiscal and monetary policies. Announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, their research provides a theoretical foundation for central banks and governments to better manage shocks like energy crises or sudden changes in consumption. The prize includes a diploma, gold medal, and $1.2 million cheque.
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On October 12, 2026, Robert Hall from Stanford University and Michael Woodford from Columbia University won the Nobel Prize in Economics in Stockholm, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. They were recognized "for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation," contributing new models that enhance the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policies to mitigate economic shocks. The prize, worth 12 million Swedish crowns ($1.2 million), is formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Their work has significantly improved policymakers' ability to manage economic fluctuations, such as those caused by energy crises or changes in consumer spending habits.
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to US academics Robert Hall and Michael Woodford for their work on how monetary and fiscal policy can help stabilise fluctuations in the economy, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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The winners of the prestigious award, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel and the final prize to be given out this year, were announced on Monday.
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The two laureates developed new macroeconomic models that improve people’s ability to implement effective stabilisation policies, enabling fiscal and monetary policy measures that can reduce damaging swings in the economy.
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“The laureates’ work has provided us with a stable theoretical foundation for the models that are now used by central banks and governments around the world,” John Hassler, chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences, said in a statement.
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“With them, we are better equipped to deal with shocks in the economy, such as energy crises or sudden changes in how much households consume.
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During the oil crises in the 1970s, the existing Keynesian models used to determine when and how measures should be implemented to tackle recessions or other economic fluctuations stopped working.
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Hall and Woodford then developed new tools to understand what policy responses could be the most effective.
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“Rather than basing the models on statistical links between macroeconomic variables, such as inflation, production and consumption, they chose to build them on a microeconomic foundation,” the academy said.
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“This encompasses an understanding of how the total mass of individual households and businesses affect the economy through their actions.”
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The economics prize, first awarded in 1969, is not part of the five original awards created in the 1895 will of industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel, but was instead established by Sweden’s central bank.
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Only three women have ever won, most recently Claudia Goldin in 2023 for her work on how gender has affected pay and employment over time in the US.
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Last year’s winners – Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt – won for their work on “creative destruction” and how new technology and production methods can boost growth and living standards.
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Like the other Nobel awards, the economics prize consists of a diploma, a gold medal, and a $1.2m cheque.
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The Nobel prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace were announced last week, with South African jurist Navi Pillay and Canadian writer Anne Carson among the winners.
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