Nobel Lectures In Economic Sciences (2011-2015)

In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. The Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, according to the same principles as for the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded since 1901. This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies and the presentation speeches, for the period 2011 - 2015. List of prizewinners and their award citations: (2011) Thomas J Sargent and Christopher A Sims for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy (2012) Alvin E Roth and Lloyd S Shapley for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design (2013) Eugene F Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J Shiller for their empirical analysis of asset prices (2014) Jean Tirole for his analysis of market power and regulation (2015) Angus Deaton for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.