Het trio zestigers, met behalve Bernanke also Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, “heeft ons begrip aanzienlijk verbeterd van de rol die banks spelen in our economy, in het bijzonder tijdens financiële crises”, aldus de academie. “A matter of concern in our own territory is that the crucifixion is om te vermijden dat banks ineenstorten.”
Bernanke was responsible for the Federal Reserve, het Amerikaanse stelsel van centrale banks, from 2006 to 2014. In the period from which there were financial crisis claims. Bernanke is currently connected to the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, Diamond to the University of Chicago and Dybvig to the Washington University in St Louis.
With the Nobelprijs in the Economic Wetenschappen, the last Nobelprijs van het jaar toegekend. Last week al the Nobelprijzen voor Geneeskunde, Natuurkunde, Chemie, Literature and Vrede are toegekend. An additional price is linked to a requirement of 10 million Zweedse crowns (of about 915,000 euros).
The economic Nobelprijs does not include the ‘classic’ prizes that the founder Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) had in his testament. De onderscheiding is an initiation of the Zweedse centrale bank in 1969. The prizes were won tot nu toe forenamelijk by Amerikaanse economen.