In 2019, Michael Kremer won the Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences and became the 23rd Nobel Prize–winning economist to be an author or discussant for BPEA since the journal’s inception in 1970. A complete list of those laureates and their contributions follows.
Michael Kremer, 2019
- Ending Africa’s Poverty Trap Spring 2004
William Nordhaus, 2018
- Who’s Afraid of a Big Bad Oil Shock? Fall 2007
- Productivity Growth and the New Economy 2002, No. 2
- The Recent Recession, the Current Recovery, and Stock Prices 2002, No. 1
- Policy Games: Coordination and Independence in Monetary and Fiscal Policies 1994, No. 2
- Lethal Model 2: The Limits to Growth Revisited 1992, No. 2
- Do Borders Matter? Soviet Economic Reform after the Coup 1991, No. 2 (with Merton J. Peck and Thomas J. Richardson)
- Soviet Economic Reform: The Longest Road 1990, No. 1
- Alternative Approaches to the Political Business Cycle 1989, No. 2
- Oil and Economic Performance in Industrial Countries 1980, No. 2
- The Falling Share of Profits 1974, No. 1
- The Allocation of Energy Resources 1973, No. 3
- The Recent Productivity Slowdown 1972, No. 3
- The Worldwide Wage Explosion 1972, No. 2
Paul M. Romer, 2018
- Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit 1993, No. 2 (with George A. Akerlof)
- Implementing a National Technology Strategy with Self-Organizing Industry Investment Boards Microeconomics 2, 1993
- Capital, Labor, and Productivity Microeconomics 1990
Oliver Hart, 2016
- The Structure and Performance of the Money Management Industry, 1992 (discussant)
- Vertical Integration and Market Foreclosure, 1990 (with Jean Tirole)
Sir Angus Deaton, 2015
- Mortality and morbidity in the 21st Century, 2017 (with Anne Case)
Jean Tirole, 2014
- Vertical Integration and Market Foreclosure, 1990 (with Oliver Hart)
Robert J. Shiller, 2013
- What Have They Been Thinking? Homebuyer Behavior in Hot and Cold Markets, 2012 (with Karl Case and Anne Thompson)
- Low Interest Rates and High Asset Prices: An Interpretation in Terms of Changing Popular Economic Models, 2007
- Is There a Bubble in the Housing Market?, 2003 (with Karl Case)
- Public Resistance to Indexation: A Puzzle, 1997
- Hunting for Homo Sovieticus: Situational versus Attitudinal Factors in Economic Behavior, 1992 (with Maxim Boycko and Vladimir Korobov)
- Stock Prices and Social Dynamics, 1984
- Forward Rates and Future Policy: Interpreting the Term Structure of Interest Rates, 1983 (with John Campbell and Kermit Schoenholtz)
Thomas J. Sargent, 2011
- Rational Expectations, the Real Rate of Interest, and the Natural Rate of Unemployment, 1973
- Policy Evaluation in Uncertain Economic Environments, 2003 (discussant)
Christopher A. Sims, 2011
- Monetary Policy Models, 2007
- The Role of Models and Probabilities in the Monetary Policy Process, 2002
- What Does Monetary Policy Do?, 1996 (with Eric Leeper and Tao Zha)
- Policy Analysis with Econometric Models, 1982
- Output and Labor Input in Manufacturing, 1974
- Disentangling the Channels of the 2007-2009 Recession, 2012 (discussant)
- How Useful Are Estimated DSGE Model Forecasts for Central Bankers?, 2010 (discussant)
Peter A. Diamond, 2010
- Macroeconomic Aspects of Social Security Reform, 1997
- The Cyclical Behavior of the Gross Flows of U.S. Workers, 1990 (with Olivier Blanchard)
- The Beveridge Curve, 1989 (with Olivier Blanchard)
Christopher A. Pissarides, 2010
- Is the Greek Debt One of Supply or Demand?, 2015 (with Yannis Ioannides)
Oliver E. Williamson, 2009
- Vertical Intergration and Market Foreclosure, 1990 (discussant)
Paul R. Krugman, 2008
- Boom, Bust, Recovery Forensics of the Latvia Crisis, 2013
- Trade and Wages, Reconsidered, 2008
- Asset Returns and Economic Growth, 2005 (with Dean Baker and J. Bradford DeLong)
- It’s Baaack: Japan’s Slump and the Return of the Liquidity Trap, 1998
- Growing World Trade: Causes and Consequences, 1995
- The Persistence of the U.S. Trade Deficit, 1987 (with Richard Baldwin)
- The U.S. Response to Foreign Industrial Targeting, 1984
- Flexible Exchange Rates in the Short Run, 1976 (with Rudiger Dornbusch)
- Boom, Bust, Recovery Forensics of the Latvia Crisis, 2013 (discussant)
- Imports in Japan: Closed Markets or Minds?, 1987 (discussant)
- Floating Exchange Rates: Experience and Prospects, 1985 (discussant)
- Latin American Debt: I Don’t Think We are in Kansas Anymore, 1984 (discussant)
Edmund S. Phelps, 2006
- Roots of the Recent Recoveries: Labor Reforms or Private Sector Forces?, 2000 (with David Jestaz, Gylfi Zoega and Jean-Paul Fitoussi)
- Causes of the 1980s Slump in Europe, 1986 (with Jean-Paul Fitoussi)
- The Medium Run, 1997 (discussant)
- The Growth of Nations, 1995 (discussant)
George A. Akerlof, 2001
- Unfinished Business in the Macroeconomics of Low Inflation: A Tribute to George and Bill by Bill and George, 2007 (with William Dickens)
- Near-Rational Wage and Price Setting and the Long-Run Phillips Curve, 2000 (with George Perry and William Dickens)
- The Macroeconomics of Low Inflation, 1996 (with George Perry and William Dickens)
- Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit, 1993 (with Paul M. Romer)
- East Germany in from the Cold: The Economic Aftermath of Currency Union, 1991 (with Andrew Rose, Helga Hessenius and Janet L. Yellen)
- Job Switching and Job Satisfaction in the U.S. Labor Market, 1988 (with Andrew Rose and Janet Yellen)
- Democratic Change in the Arab World, Past and Present, 2012 (discussant)
- Why Doesn’t Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?, 2009 (discussant)
Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001
- Economic Crises: Evidence and Insights from East Asia, 1998 (with Barry Bosworth, Jason Furman and Steven Radelet)
- Examining Alternative Macroeconomic Theories, 1988 (with Bruce Greenwald)
- Technological Change, Sunk Costs, and Competition, 1987
Daniel L. McFadden, 2000
- Technological Change, Sunk Costs, and Competition, 1987 (discussant)
Gary S. Becker, 1992
- Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox, 2008 (discussant)
Robert M. Solow, 1987
- Deciphering the fall and rise in the net capital share, 2015
- Manufacturing Wage Dispersion: An End Game Interpretation, 1985 (discussant)
- U.S. Labor Markets: Imbalance, Wage Growth, and Productivity in the 1970s, 1983 (discussant)
Franco Modigliani, 1985
- Is a Tax Rebate an Effective Tool for Stabilization Policy?, 1977 (with Charles Steindel)
- Targets for Monetary Policy in the Coming Year, 1975 (with Lucas Papademos)
- The Output Cost of Disinflation in Traditional and Vector Autoregressive Models, 1982 (discussant)
- The Central Role of Credit Crunches in Recent Financial History, 1980 (discussant)
George J. Stigler, 1982
- Do Entry Conditions Vary across Markets?, 1988 (discussant)
James Tobin, 1981
- William John Fellner 1905-1983, 1983
- Stabilization Policy Ten Years After, 1980
- Macroeconomic Effects of Selective Public Employment and Wage Subsidies, 1977 (with Martin Neil Baily)
- Monetary Policy in 1974 and Beyond, 1974
- A Price Target for U.S. Monetary Policy? Lessons from the Experience with Money Growth Targets, 1996 (discussant)
- Was This Recession Different? Are They All Different?, 1993 (discussant)
Lawrence R. Klein, 1980
- Capacity Utilization: Concept, Measurement, and Recent Estimates, 1973 (with Virginia Long)
- Mortgage Credit Availability and Residential Construction, 1979 (discussant)