2 American economists win Nobel for work on managing economic shocks

Times of Israel12 October 2026, 15:58 UTCUnited States of America

Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, affiliated, respectively, with Stanford and Columbia universities, created theoretical foundation to understand how consumers save and spend

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