Nobel Winners

NBER Researchers Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

NBER Research Associates Thomas Sargent of NYU and Christopher Sims of Princeton University are the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics. Sargent is the Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at NYU and a Research Associate in the NBER's Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program. Sims is the Harold H. Helm '20 Professor of Economics and Banking at Princeton and a Research Associate in the NBER's EFG and Monetary Economics Programs. Both have been NBER affiliates since the late 1970s.

Sargent and Sims join a long list of current and past NBER affiliates who have received the Prize, including: Peter Diamond and Dale Mortenson (shared with Christopher Pissarides), 2010; Paul Krugman , 2008; Edward C. Prescott and Finn Kydland, 2004; Robert F. Engle (shared with Clive Granger) , 2003; George Akerlof and Joseph E. Stiglitz (shared with Michael Spence), 2001; James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden, 2000; Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes, 1997; Robert E. Lucas, Jr., 1995; Robert W. Fogel (shared with Douglass North), 1993; Gary S. Becker, 1992; and the late George J. Stigler, 1982, Theodore W. Schultz, 1979, Milton Friedman, 1976, and Simon Kuznets, 1971.