Two Americans win Nobel Prize in Economics for work on boom-bust cycles

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Two Americans have won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on how to smooth boom-and-bust cycles to limit unemployment and inflation.

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  • Reported by NPR Top and published Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:35:16 UTC.

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“This year’s laureates in economic sciences, Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, have developed new macroeconomic models that have significantly improved our ability to implement effective stabilisation policy.

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