# List of Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economic Sciences

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Swedish: Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, is an award in the field of Economic Sciences administered by the Nobel Foundation.
The first Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded in 1969 to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award that has varied throughout the years. In 1969, Frisch and Tinbergen were given a combined 375,000 SEK, which is equivalent to 2,871,041 SEK in December 2007. The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.
As of the awarding of the 2023 prize, 55 Prizes in Economic Sciences have been given to 93 individuals. As of October 2023, the department of economics with the most affiliated laureates in economic sciences is the University of Chicago, with 16 affiliated laureates. As of 2023, the institutions with the most PhD (or equivalent) graduates who went on to receive the prize are Harvard University and MIT (13 each), followed by the University of Chicago (10). As of 2024, the institutions with the most affiliated faculty at the time of the award are the University of Chicago (15), followed by MIT (10), then by Princeton University and Harvard University (8 each).

## Laureates

* 1969
* 1980
* 1990
* 2000
* 2010
* 2020
| Year | Laureate (birth/death) | Country | Rationale | PhD (or equivalent) alma mater | Institution (most significant tenure/at time of receipt) | Key contributions (non-exhaustive) |
| 1969 | Ragnar Frisch (1895–1973) | Norway | "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes" | University of Oslo | University of Oslo | Frisch–Waugh–Lovell theorem, Conjectural variation |
| 1969 | Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) | Netherlands | "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes" | Leiden University | Erasmus University | Econometrics, Policy instruments |
| 1970 | Paul Samuelson (1915–2009) | United States | "for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science" | Harvard University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Revealed preference, Samuelson condition, Social Welfare Function, Efficient-market hypothesis, Turnpike theory, Balassa–Samuelson effect, Stolper–Samuelson theorem, Overlapping generations model |
| 1971 | Simon Kuznets (1901–1985) | United States | "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development" | Columbia University | Harvard University | Gross domestic product, Capital formation, Kuznets cycle, Kuznets curve |
| 1972 | John Hicks (1904–1989) | United Kingdom | "for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory" | University of Oxford | University of Oxford | IS–LM model, Hicksian demand function, substitution effect, income effect, Kaldor–Hicks efficiency |
| 1972 | Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017) | United States | "for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory" | Columbia University | Harvard University | Fundamental theorems of welfare economics, Arrow's impossibility theorem, Arrow–Debreu model, Endogenous growth theory, |
| 1973 | Wassily Leontief (1905–1999) | Soviet Union United States | "for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems" | University of Berlin | Harvard University | Input–output model, Leontief paradox |
| 1974 | Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987) | Sweden | "for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena" | Stockholm University | Stockholm University | Circular cumulative causation |
| 1974 | Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992) | Austria United Kingdom | "for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena" | University of Vienna | London School of EconomicsUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of FreiburgUniversity of Salzburg | Austrian business cycle theory, Economic calculation problem, Spontaneous order, Information economics |
| 1975 | Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986) | Soviet Union | "for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources" | Leningrad State University | Novosibirsk State University | Linear programming, Kantorovich theorem, Kantorovich inequality, Kantorovich metric |
| 1975 | Tjalling Koopmans (1910–1985) | Netherlands United States | "for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources" | University of Leiden | University of ChicagoYale University | Linear programming |
| 1976 | Milton Friedman (1912–2006) | United States | "for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilisation policy" | Columbia University | University of Chicago | Monetarism, Permanent income hypothesis, Natural rate of unemployment, Sequential analysis, Helicopter money, Great Contraction, Friedman rule, Friedman–Savage utility function, Friedman test |
| 1977 | Bertil Ohlin (1899–1979) | Sweden | "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements" | Stockholm University | Stockholm School of Economics | Heckscher–Ohlin model |
| 1977 | James Meade (1907–1995) | United Kingdom | "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements" | University of Cambridge | University of Cambridge | Nominal income target |
| 1978 | Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) | United States | "for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations" | University of Chicago | Carnegie Mellon University | Bounded rationality, satisficing, preferential attachment |
| 1979 | Theodore Schultz (1902–1998) | United States | "for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries" | University of Wisconsin–Madison | University of Chicago | Human Capital Theory |
| 1979 | W. Arthur Lewis (1915–1991) | Saint Lucia United Kingdom | "for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries" | London School of Economics | Princeton University | Lewis model, Lewis turning point |
| 1980 | Lawrence Klein (1920–2013) | United States | "for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | University of Pennsylvania | Macroeconomic forecasting (LINK project) |
| 1981 | James Tobin (1918–2002) | United States | "for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices" | Harvard University | Yale University | Tobin tax, Tobit model, Tobin's q, Baumol–Tobin model |
| 1982 | George Stigler (1911–1991) | United States | "for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation" | University of Chicago | University of Chicago | Regulatory capture |
| 1983 | Gérard Debreu (1921–2004) | France | "for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium" | University of Paris | University of California, Berkeley | Arrow–Debreu model, Sonnenschein–Mantel–Debreu theorem |
| 1984 | Richard Stone (1913–1991) | United Kingdom | "for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis" | University of Cambridge | University of Cambridge | National accounts |
| 1985 | Franco Modigliani (1918–2003) | Italy | "for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets" | The New School for Social Research | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Modigliani–Miller theorem, Life-cycle hypothesis |
| 1986 | James M. Buchanan (1919–2013) | United States | "for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making" | University of Chicago | George Mason University | Constitutional economics |
| 1987 | Robert Solow (1924–2023) | United States | "for his contributions to the theory of economic growth" | Harvard University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Solow–Swan model |
| 1988 | Maurice Allais (1911–2010) | France | "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources" | École Polytechnique | École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de ParisParis Nanterre University | OLG model, Allais paradox, Golden Rule savings rate |
| 1989 | Trygve Haavelmo (1911–1999) | Norway | "for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures" | University of Oslo | University of Oslo | Balanced budget multiplier |
| 1990 | Harry Markowitz (1927–2023) | United States | "for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics" | University of Chicago | City University of New York | Modern portfolio theory, Markowitz model, Efficient frontier |
| 1990 | Merton Miller (1923–2000) | United States | "for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics" | Johns Hopkins University | Carnegie Mellon UniversityUniversity of Chicago | Modigliani–Miller theorem |
| 1990 | William F. Sharpe (b. 1934) | United States | "for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics" | University of California, Los Angeles | Stanford University | Sharpe Ratio, Binomial options pricing model, Returns-based style analysis |
| 1991 | Ronald Coase (1910–2013) | United Kingdom | "for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy" | London School of Economics | University of ChicagoLondon School of Economics | Transaction costs, Coase theorem, Coase conjecture |
| 1992 | Gary Becker (1930–2014) | United States | "for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including non-market behaviour" | University of Chicago | University of Chicago | Human Capital Theory |
| 1993 | Robert Fogel (1926–2013) | United States | "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change" | Johns Hopkins University | University of Chicago | Cliometrics |
| 1993 | Douglass North (1920–2015) | United States | "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change" | University of California, Berkeley | Washington University in St. Louis | Cliometrics |
| 1994 | John Harsanyi (1920–2000) | Hungary United States | "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games" | Stanford University | University of California, Berkeley | Bayesian game, Preference utilitarianism, Equilibrium selection |
| 1994 | John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015) | United States | "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games" | Princeton University | Princeton University | Nash equilibrium, Nash embedding theorem, Nash functions, Nash–Moser theorem |
| 1994 | Reinhard Selten (1930–2016) | Germany | "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games" | Goethe University Frankfurt | University of Bonn | Experimental economics |
| 1995 | Robert Lucas, Jr. (1937–2023) | United States | "for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy" | University of Chicago | University of Chicago | Rational expectations, Lucas critique, Lucas paradox, Lucas aggregate supply function, Uzawa–Lucas model |
| 1996 | James Mirrlees (1936–2018) | United Kingdom | "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information" | University of Cambridge | University of OxfordUniversity of Cambridge | Optimal labor income taxation |
| 1996 | William Vickrey (1914–1996) | Canada United States | "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information" | Columbia University | Columbia University | Vickrey auction, Revenue equivalence, Congestion pricing |
| 1997 | Robert C. Merton (b. 1944) | United States | "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Black–Scholes–Merton model, ICAPM, Merton's portfolio problem |
| 1997 | Myron Scholes (b. 1941) | Canada United States | "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives" | University of Chicago | Stanford University | Black–Scholes–Merton model |
| 1998 | Amartya Sen (b. 1933) | India | "for his contributions to welfare economics" | University of Cambridge | Harvard UniversityUniversity of Cambridge | Human development theory, Capability approach |
| 1999 | Robert Mundell (1932–2021) | Canada | "for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Columbia University | Optimum currency area, Supply-side economics, Mundell–Fleming model, Mundell–Tobin effect |
| 2000 | James Heckman (b. 1944) | United States | "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples" | Princeton University | University of Chicago | Heckman correction |
| 2000 | Daniel McFadden (b. 1937) | United States | "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice" | University of Minnesota | University of California, BerkeleyMassachusetts Institute of Technology | Discrete choice models |
| 2001 | George Akerlof (b. 1940) | United States | "for their analyses of markets with information asymmetry" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Georgetown UniversityUniversity of California, Berkeley | Adverse selection (The Market for Lemons), Efficiency wage, Identity economics |
| 2001 | Michael Spence (b. 1943) | United States | "for their analyses of markets with information asymmetry" | Harvard University | Harvard University | Signalling theory |
| 2001 | Joseph Stiglitz (b. 1943) | United States | "for their analyses of markets with information asymmetry" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Princeton UniversityColumbia University | Screening theory, Henry George theorem, Shapiro–Stiglitz theory |
| 2002 | Daniel Kahneman (1934–2024) | Israel United States | "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty" | University of California, Berkeley | Princeton UniversityUniversity of British Columbia | Behavioral economics, Prospect theory, loss aversion, cognitive biases |
| 2002 | Vernon L. Smith (b. 1927) | United States | "for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms" | Harvard University | University of Arizona | Experimental economics, Combinatorial auction |
| 2003 | Robert F. Engle (b. 1942) | United States | "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)" | Cornell University | University of California, San Diego | ARCH |
| 2003 | Clive Granger (1934–2009) | United Kingdom | "for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)" | University of Nottingham | University of California, San Diego | Cointegration, Granger causality |
| 2004 | Finn E. Kydland (b. 1943) | Norway | "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles" | Carnegie Mellon University | University of California, Santa Barbara | RBC theory, Dynamic inconsistency in monetary policy |
| 2004 | Edward C. Prescott (1940–2022) | United States | "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles" | Carnegie Mellon University | Carnegie Mellon UniversityArizona State UniversityUniversity of Minnesota | Hodrick-Prescott filter |
| 2005 | Robert J. Aumann (b. 1930) | United States Israel | "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Correlated equilibrium, Aumann's agreement theorem |
| 2005 | Thomas C. Schelling (1921–2016) | United States | "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis" | Harvard University | Yale UniversityHarvard University | Schelling point, Egonomics |
| 2006 | Edmund S. Phelps (b. 1933) | United States | "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy" | Yale University | Columbia University | Golden Rule savings rate, Natural rate of unemployment, Statistical discrimination |
| 2007 | Leonid Hurwicz (1917–2008) | Poland United States | "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory" | London School of Economics | University of MinnesotaIowa State University | Mechanism design |
| 2007 | Eric S. Maskin (b. 1950) | United States | "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory" | Harvard University | Harvard University | Mechanism design |
| 2007 | Roger Myerson (b. 1951) | United States | "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory" | Harvard University | Northwestern University | Mechanism design |
| 2008 | Paul Krugman (b. 1953) | United States | "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Princeton University | New trade theory, New Economic Geography, Home market effect |
| 2009 | Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012) | United States | "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" | University of California, Los Angeles | Indiana University | Institutional Analysis and Development framework |
| 2009 | Oliver E. Williamson (1932–2020) | United States | "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm" | Carnegie Mellon University | University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of California, Berkeley | New institutional economics |
| 2010 | Peter A. Diamond (b. 1940) | United States | "for their analysis of markets with search frictions" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Diamond–Mirrlees efficiency theorem, Diamond coconut model |
| 2010 | Dale T. Mortensen (1939–2014) | United States | "for their analysis of markets with search frictions" | Carnegie Mellon University | Northwestern University | Matching theory |
| 2010 | Christopher A. Pissarides (b. 1948) | Cyprus United Kingdom | "for their analysis of markets with search frictions" | London School of Economics | London School of Economics | Matching theory |
| 2011 | Thomas J. Sargent (b. 1943) | United States | "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy" | Harvard University | Hoover InstitutionUniversity of Minnesota | Policy-ineffectiveness proposition |
| 2011 | Christopher A. Sims (b. 1942) | United States | "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy" | Harvard University | University of Minnesota Princeton University | Vector autoregression in macroeconomics, Fiscal theory of the price level, Rational inattention |
| 2012 | Alvin E. Roth (b. 1951) | United States | "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design" | Stanford University | Stanford UniversityHarvard University | Stable marriage problem, Repugnancy costs |
| 2012 | Lloyd S. Shapley (1923–2016) | United States | "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design" | Princeton University | University of California, Los Angeles | Shapley value, stochastic game, Potential game, Shapley–Shubik power index, Bondareva–Shapley theorem, Gale–Shapley algorithm, Shapley–Folkman lemma |
| 2013 | Eugene F. Fama (b. 1939) | United States | "for their empirical analysis of asset prices" | University of Chicago | University of Chicago | Fama–French three-factor model, Weak, semi-strong, and strong efficient-market hypothesis |
| 2013 | Lars Peter Hansen (b. 1952) | United States | "for their empirical analysis of asset prices" | University of Minnesota | University of Chicago | Generalized method of moments |
| 2013 | Robert J. Shiller (b. 1946) | United States | "for their empirical analysis of asset prices" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Yale University | Case–Shiller index, CAPE Index |
| 2014 | Jean Tirole (b. 1953) | France | "for his analysis of market power and regulation" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyToulouse School of EconomicsSchool for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences | Markov perfect equilibrium, Two-sided market |
| 2015 | Angus Deaton (b. 1945) | United Kingdom United States | "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare" | University of Cambridge | Princeton University | Almost ideal demand system, Pseudo panels, Household surveys in developing countries |
| 2016 | Oliver Hart (b. 1948) | United Kingdom United States | "for their contributions to contract theory" | Princeton University | Harvard University | Moral Hazard, Incomplete contracts |
| 2016 | Bengt Holmström (b. 1949) | Finland | "for their contributions to contract theory" | Stanford University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Informativeness Principle |
| 2017 | Richard Thaler (b. 1945) | United States | "for his contributions to behavioural economics" | University of Rochester | Cornell UniversityUniversity of Chicago | Nudge theory, Mental accounting, Choice architecture |
| 2018 | William Nordhaus (b. 1941) | United States | "for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Yale University | DICE model |
| 2018 | Paul Romer (b. 1955) | United States | "for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis" | University of Chicago | New York University | Incorporation of R&D to the Endogenous growth theory |
| 2019 | Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961) | United States | "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty" | Harvard University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Use of RCTs in development economics |
| 2019 | Esther Duflo (b. 1972) | France United States | "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Use of RCTs in development economics |
| 2019 | Michael Kremer (b. 1964) | United States | "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty" | Harvard University | Harvard University | Use of RCTs in development economics |
| 2020 | Paul Milgrom (b. 1948) | United States | "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats" | Stanford University | Stanford University | Simultaneous multiple round auctions (SMRA), No-trade theorem, Market design, Reputation effects (game theory), supermodular games, monotone comparative statics, Linkage principle, Deferred-acceptance auction |
| 2020 | Robert B. Wilson (b. 1937) | United States | "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats" | Harvard University | Stanford University | Simultaneous multiple round auctions (SMRA), Common value auction, Reputation effects (game theory), Wilson doctrine |
| 2021 | David Card (b. 1956) | Canada United States | "for his empirical contributions to labour economics" | Princeton University | University of California, Berkeley | Natural experiments on labour economics (incl. Difference in differences) |
| 2021 | Joshua Angrist (b. 1960) | United States Israel | "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships" | Princeton University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Local average treatment effect, natural experiments to estimate causal links |
| 2021 | Guido Imbens (b. 1963) | United States Netherlands | "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships" | Brown University | Stanford University | Local average treatment effect, natural experiments to estimate causal links |
| 2022 | Ben Bernanke (b. 1953) | United States | "for research on banks and financial crises" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Princeton UniversityBrookings Institution | Analysis of the Great Depression |
| 2022 | Douglas Diamond (b. 1953) | United States | "for research on banks and financial crises" | Yale University | University of Chicago | Diamond–Dybvig model |
| 2022 | Philip H. Dybvig (b. 1955) | United States | "for research on banks and financial crises" | Yale University | Washington University in St. Louis | Diamond–Dybvig model |
| 2023 | Claudia Goldin (b. 1946) | United States | "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes" | University of Chicago | Harvard University | Analysis of historical experience of women in the economy |
| 2024 | Daron Acemoglu (b. 1967) | Turkey United States | "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity" | London School of Economics | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2024 | Simon Johnson (b. 1963) | United Kingdom United States | "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity" | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2024 | James A. Robinson (b. 1955) | United Kingdom United States | "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity" | Yale University | University of Chicago | |

### List of Economic Nobel laureates by PhD (or equivalent) alma mater

| Institution | Country | Number of laureates |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | 14 (1980, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2001, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024) Lawrence Klein, Robert C. Merton, Robert Mundell, Joseph Stiglitz, George Akerlof, Robert J. Aumann, Paul Krugman, Peter A. Diamond, Robert J. Shiller, Jean Tirole, William Nordhaus, Esther Duflo, Ben Bernanke, Simon Johnson |
| Harvard University | United States | 13 (1970, 1981, 1987, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2007, 2011, 2011, 2019, 2019, 2020) Paul Samuelson, James Tobin, Robert Solow, Michael Spence, Vernon L. Smith, Thomas C. Schelling, Roger Myerson, Eric S. Maskin, Thomas J. Sargent, Christopher A. Sims, Abhijit Banerjee, Michael Kremer, Robert B. Wilson |
| University of Chicago | United States | 10 (1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2013, 2018, 2023) Herbert A. Simon, George Stigler, James M. Buchanan, Harry Markowitz, Gary Becker, Robert Lucas, Jr., Myron Scholes, Eugene F. Fama, Paul Romer, Claudia Goldin |
| Princeton University | United States | 6 (1994, 2000, 2012, 2016, 2021, 2021) John Forbes Nash Jr., James Heckman, Lloyd S. Shapley, Oliver Hart, David Card, Joshua Angrist |
| London School of Economics | United Kingdom | 5 (1979, 1992, 2007, 2010, 2024) C. A. Pissarides, L. Hurwicz, R. Coase, W. A. Lewis, Daron Acemoglu |
| University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 5 (1977, 1984, 1996, 1998, 2015) James Meade, Richard Stone, James Mirrlees, Amartya Sen, Angus Deaton |
| Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 4 (2004, 2004, 2009, 2010) Finn E. Kydland, Edward C. Prescott, Dale T. Mortensen |
| Columbia University | United States | 4 (1971, 1972, 1976, 1996) William Vickrey, Milton Friedman, Kenneth Arrow, Simon Kuznets |
| Stanford University | United States | 4 (1994, 2012, 2016, 2020) Paul Milgrom, Bengt Holmström, Alvin E. Roth, John Harsanyi |
| Yale University | United States | 4 (2006, 2022, 2022, 2024) Edmund S. Phelps, Douglas Diamond, Philip H. Dybvig, James A. Robinson |
| Johns Hopkins University | United States | 2 (1990, 1993) Merton Miller, Robert Fogel |
| Leiden University | Netherlands | 2 (1969, 1975) Jan Tinbergen, Tjalling Koopmans |
| Stockholm University | Sweden | 2 (1974, 1977) Gunnar Myrdal, Bertil Ohlin |
| University of California, Berkeley | United States | 2 (1993, 2002) Douglass North, Daniel Kahneman |
| University of California, Los Angeles | United States | 2 (1990, 2009) William F. Sharpe, Elinor Ostrom |
| University of Minnesota | United States | 2 (2000, 2013) Daniel McFadden, Lars Peter Hansen |
| University of Oslo | Norway | 2 (1969, 1989) Ragnar Frisch, Trygve Haavelmo |
| Brown University | United States | 1 (2021) Guido Imbens |
| Cornell University | United States | 1 (2003) Robert F. Engle |
| École Polytechnique | France | 1 (1988) Maurice Allais |
| Goethe University Frankfurt | Germany | 1 (1994) Reinhard Selten |
| Leningrad State University | Soviet Union | 1 (1975) Leonid Kantorovich |
| The New School for Social Research | United States | 1 (1985) Franco Modigliani |
| University of Berlin | Germany | 1 (1973) Wassily Leontief |
| University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | 1 (2003) Clive Granger |
| University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 1 (1972) John Hicks |
| University of Paris | France | 1 (1983) Gérard Debreu |
| University of Rochester | United States | 1 (2017) Richard Thaler |
| University of Vienna | Austria | 1 (1974) Friedrich Hayek |
| University of Wisconsin–Madison | United States | 1 (1979) Theodore Schultz |

### List of Economic Nobel laureates by country

| Country | Number of laureates |
| United States | 71 |
| United Kingdom | 13 |
| Canada | 4 |
| France | 4 |
| Israel | 3 |
| Netherlands | 3 |
| Norway | 3 |
| India | 2 |
| Soviet Union | 2 |
| Sweden | 2 |
| Austria | 1 |
| Cyprus | 1 |
| Finland | 1 |
| Germany | 1 |
| Hungary | 1 |
| Italy | 1 |
| Poland | 1 |
| Saint Lucia | 1 |
| Turkey | 1 |