Economic Sciences

Press release

Swedish 14 oktober 1998 har beslutat utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne år 1998 till Professor Amartya Sen, Trinity College, Cambridge, Storbritannien (indisk medborgare) för hans bidrag till den ekonomiska välfärdsanalysen. Kollektiva beslut, välfärdsfördelning, fattigdom Amartya Sen har gjort ett flertal centrala insatser i forskningen om grundläggande välfärdsfrågor. Insatserna sträcker…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor Bertil Näslund of the , December 10, 1997. Translation of the Swedish text. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, If a Swedish company has to pay 10 million dollars for a machine in six months, it runs the risk that the exchange rate will change. In order to protect…

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Press release

English 14 October 1997 has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1997, to Professor Robert C. Merton, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA and Professor Myron S. Scholes, Stanford University, Stanford, USA for a new method to determine the value of derivatives. Robert C. Merton and Myron…

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