Prof. Dr. Robert Lucas Jr.

Nationality United States

Institution University of Chicago, Department of Economics

Award 1995

Discipline Economic Sciences

Motivation"for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy."

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