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The Financial Nobel Prizes: characteristics and relevance for markets and intermediaries

Gianfranco Vento, Paola Vezzani
December 2018 - n. 12
Keywords: Premio Nobel, Premio Nobel per l’Economia
Jel codes: A10, B40

The paper investigates the role of financial studies within Nobel Prizes in Economic Sciences, by highlighting someempirical evidences on the scholars awarded with the prestigious Prize and on their studies. The analysis aims atpointing out both the existing relationship between age and scientific productivity, and to what extent some reknowntheories according to which a sample of 20 Financial Nobel Prizes has been awarded with the Prize have contributed to strategic and managerial decisions in financial markets and intermediaries. The article ends with an analysis –performed with the contribution of Professor Robert Shiller – of the current and future role of the Nobel Prize and its strategic implications.

 

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