Nemmers Prize for Economics
The Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics (English: Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics ) is a two year from the Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois) awarded prize for contributions of "maintaining exceptional importance" in the field of economics .
The prize was donated together with the other Nemmers prizes by the brothers Erwin E. and Frederic E. Nemmers . In addition to the two awards, the endowment of US $ 14 million will serve to endow four professorships at the university's renowned Kellogg School of Management . The endowment of the prize varies with the development of the foundation's assets, with more than US $ 150,000 in prize money each, the awards are among the most highly endowed prizes in their fields.
Award winners
- 1994: Peter A. Diamond (Nobel Prize 2010)
- 1996: Thomas Sargent (Nobel Prize 2011)
- 1998: Robert Aumann (Nobel Prize 2005)
- 2000: Daniel McFadden (Nobel Prize 2000)
- 2002: Edward C. Prescott (Nobel Prize 2004)
- 2004: Ariel Rubinstein
- 2006: Lars Peter Hansen (Nobel Prize 2013)
- 2008: Paul Milgrom
- 2010: Elhanan Helpman
- 2012: Daron Acemoğlu
- 2014: Jean Tirole (Nobel Prize 2014)
- 2016: Richard Blundell
- 2018: David M. Kreps