Robert Hall and Michael Woodford win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2026 economics prize to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford.
It cited their work on the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.
Hall is at Stanford and Woodford at Columbia, and the prize is worth about $1.2 million.
The award was established in 1968 and is presented on 10 December, with the other Nobel prizes.

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