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The ace game theorists

19 Sept 2021 1:29 AM IST
While Robert John Aumann applied his mathematical skills to developing his works on repeated games, Thomas Crombie Schelling laid out simple and lucid...

Proponents of dynamic macroeconomics

12 Sept 2021 12:07 AM IST
Contrary to the Keynesian view that changes in aggregate demand drove business cycles, the works of Finn Erling Kydland and Edward Christian Prescott...

Trailblazers of time series

5 Sept 2021 12:16 AM IST
Robert Fry Engle III and Clive William John Granger introduced innovative methods — with time varying volatility and cointegration respectively — of...

The Nobel Series: Pathfinders of new frontiers

29 Aug 2021 12:30 AM IST
The works of both Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Lomax Smith challenged the assumptions of neoclassical framework; while the former applied psychological...

Economics of asymmetric information

21 Aug 2021 10:36 PM IST
George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz applied the concept of information asymmetry to wide-ranging areas, enabling a more real-world...

Statistical solutions to microeconomic problems

15 Aug 2021 12:54 AM IST
While James Joseph Heckman devised a method for analysing selective samples and did research on effects of early childhood care on health, Daniel...

The Nobel Series: Father of Euro

7 Aug 2021 10:03 PM IST
Chiefly known for dynamic analysis of fiscal and monetary policy under different exchange rate regimes, Robert Alexander Mundell made fundamental...

The Nobel Series: Doyen of welfare economics

31 July 2021 10:48 PM IST
Amartya Sen transcended the boundaries of the discipline of economics, exuding a high degree of humanitarian concern, through his still-relevant works...

The Nobel Series: Valuators of derivatives

24 July 2021 9:34 PM IST
Amid the wide-ranging works of Robert Cox Merton and Myron Samuel Scholes in financial theory, the valuation of options by eliminating the need of...

Information asymmetry

17 July 2021 10:41 PM IST
Based on the concept that two parties involved in an economic transaction share differing information — works of James Mirrlees and William Vickrey...

The Nobel series: Proponent of rational expectations

10 July 2021 9:49 PM IST
Based on the foundation stone of his rational expectations hypothesis, Robert E Lucas' works transformed the way we perceive macroeconomic analysis

The Nobel series: Masters of game theory

3 July 2021 9:40 PM IST
John Forbes Nash, John Charles Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten expanded the frontiers of game theory by analysing the equilibria in non-cooperative games
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