2 American economists awarded 2026 Economics Nobel, get ₹11.5 crore cash prize

The 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to American economists Robert E Hall and Michael Woodford. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honoured them "for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation". The two economists will share prize money of 12 million Swedish kronor (₹11.5 crore).