Nobel Prize Prognostications
With the Nobel in economics to be awarded next week, here’s my list of candidates: Bhagwati and Dixit for research in international trade, Barro and Romer for growth econ, Hart for transactional econ, Nordhaus and Weitzman for environmental econ, Fama and French for financial econ, Shiller and Thaler for behavioral econ, Diamond for financial intermediation, Hausman and White for econometrics and Krueger and Tullock for rent-seeking behavior.