Nobel Economics Prize

Nobel Prize in Economics 2016: Know how the winners helped design insurance policies, executive pay

Two US-based academics won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for groundbreaking research on contract theory that has helped design insurance policies, executive pay and even prison management.

Oct 10, 2016, 19:26 PM IST

Nobel-winning economist worried prize phone call was prank

The British-born winner of the Nobel Economics Prize joked on Monday that he worried the telephone call from Sweden alerting him of the award might have been a prank.

Oct 13, 2015, 01:36 AM IST