The Nobel Prize for Economics this year goes to the researchers David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens.
This was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Monday.
The Nobel Prize for Economics, which has been awarded since the late 1960s, is the only one that does not go back to the will of the prize sponsor and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).
It was donated by the Swedish Central Bank and is therefore not, strictly speaking, a classic Nobel Prize.
Nevertheless, it will be presented together with the other prizes on the anniversary of Nobel's death, December 10th.
So far, only one German has been among the Nobel laureates in economics: the Bonn scientist Reinhard Selten received it in 1994 together with John Nash and John Harsanyi for their pioneering contributions to non-cooperative game theory.
According to tradition, scientists from the USA are among the favorites for the award.
Last year it went to the US economists Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson, who were honored for their improvements in auction theory and the invention of new auction formats.
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