My Economics Nobel Prize Predictions

October is always an exciting month for people who are interested in economics. This year, the Nobel prize in economics (officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) will be announced on October 11, 2021. Last year, Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson received the prestigious prize "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats".

Now, I will venture to list some potential laureates for this year:

• Daron Acemoglu, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “for his pioneering work in human capital accumulation and the effect of technological change”
• Philippe Aghion, Professor of Economics at the College de France and the London School of Economics, “for his innovative work on his theory of endogenous growth and innovation” and Robert Barro, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, “for his contribution to neo-classical macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy, and economic growth”
• Susan Athey, Economics of Technology Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, “for her work on applied auction research and economic theory”
• Ben Bernanke, distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution, Alan Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, “for their research on the great depression, monetary economics, and the international monetary and financial system”
• Marianne Bertrand, Chris P. Dialynas Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, “for her contribution to labor economics and the understanding of discrimination and gender gaps”
• David Card, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, “for his contribution to labor economics and his research (with Alan Krueger) of the effect of the minimum wage”
• Carmen Reinhart, Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School,?and Kenneth Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, “for their work on international macroeconomics, financial and sovereign debt crisis”

See you on October 11!