Readers & Thinkers: The 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics. Post Analysis

Dear All: The Nobel Prize in economics was announced this morning. Despite my efforts and other people’s to predict the prize this year, we were wrong. WINNERS: James Heckman (CHICAGO) and Daniel McFadden (UC Berkeley) ON DAN MCFADDEN CONTRIBUTION: Dan McFadden was given the prize for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice models. Thus, he is primarily...
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Readers & Thinkers: The 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics. Prediction

Dear All: Tomorrow morning is the announcment of the Nobel prize in economics. Please send your votes to [email protected] by midnight tonight! Ludwig will take the winner out to lunch. Ludwig’s Guesses: I think the Nobel prize will be given in one of the following categories: (1) IO/Theory (2) Public Economics (3) Experimental Economics (4) Econometrics. Labor is also a possibility. For...
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