Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and two other American economists won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences on Monday for their work studying bank runs and financial crises. Bernanke led the Federal Reserve from from 2006 to 2014 under two presidents, including during the 2008 financial crisis, when he directed drops in short-term interest... Read more
Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics Monday, along with economists Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, for their research on bank runs and measures to prevent them. Bernanke, who’s now at the Brookings Institution, was recognized for his research on the role of bank failures in deepening and prolonging... Read more
The award to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig was announced Monday by the Nobel panel at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. This year’s Nobel Prize in economic sciences has been awarded to the former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, and two U.S.-based economists,... Read more
STOCKHOLM — Three economists – including former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke – have won this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. According to The Associated Press, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday that Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig, who are all based in the United States, won the award for their... Read more
A trio of U.S. economists including Former Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke won this year’s Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for research on how propping up failing banks can stave off an even deeper economic crisis. Bernanke, along with Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig won the 2022 price for their work starting in the early... Read more
STOCKHOLM (AP) — This year’s Nobel Prize in economic sciences has been awarded to the former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, and two U.S.-based economists, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig, “for research on banks and financial crises.” Unlike the other prizes, the economics award wasn’t established in Alfred Nobel’s... Read more
Bernanke, of The Brookings Institute, served as chair of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014, where he oversaw the central bank’s response to the Great Recession. Diamond is a professor at The University of Chicago. Dybvig is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. “The laureates’ insights have improved our ability to avoid... Read more
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and U.S. professors Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig won the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for their research on banks and financial crises. Bernanke is now a researcher at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Diamond teaches at the University of Chicago and Dybvig is a professor at... Read more
Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless, and Danish scientist Morten Meldal were cited for their work on click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions, which are used to make cancer drugs, map DNA and create materials that are tailored to a specific purpose. “It’s all about snapping molecules together,” said Johan Aqvist, a member of... Read more
The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to US scientists Carolyn R Bertozzi and K Barry Sharpless and Denmark’s Morten Meldal for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to design medicines. Their work, known as click chemistry and bio-orthogonal reactions, is used to make cancer drugs, map DNA and... Read more
