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Publication of Investors and Markets: Portfolio Choices, Asset Prices, and Investment Advice

Emeritus Status at Stanford

Founding of Financial Engines

Development of the Binomial Method for Fixed Income Options

Nobel Prize Awarded

Publication of Portfolio Theory and Capital Markets

Development of the Sharpe Ratio

Joining the Stanford University Faculty

Publication of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

Birth of William F. Sharpe

Interview with Alvin Roth on Market Design

Contribution to Kidney Exchange Networks

Roth Joins Stanford University

Alvin Roth Publishes 'Who Gets What – and Why'

Nobel Prize in Economics

Gale-Shapley Framework Extended

Roth Begins Research on Game Theory and Market Design

Alvin Roth Receives MS and PhD from Stanford University

Alvin E. Roth: B.S. from Columbia University

Birth of Alvin E. Roth

Publication of 'End This Depression Now!'

Paul Krugman Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

Columnist for The New York Times

Publication of 'The Return of Depression Economics'

Publication of 'The Accidental Theorist'

Publication of 'Pop Internationalism'

Paul Krugman Wins John Bates Clark Medal

Publication of 'Is Free Trade Passé?'

Publication of 'A Model of Balance of Payments Crises'

Birth of Paul Krugman

Publication of 'The Labor Market as a Social Institution'

National Medal of Science

Enron Board of Directors

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Awarded the John Bates Clark Medal

Presidency of the Econometric Society

Publication of 'Capital Theory and the Rate of Return'

Joins MIT Faculty

Solow's Model Receives Recognition

Publication of 'A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth'

Death of Ronald Coase

Publication of 'How China Became Capitalist'

Publication of 'The Journal of Law and Economics: Founding and Early Years'

Awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Move to University of Chicago Law School

Publication of 'The Problem of Social Cost'

Coase's FCC Research

Publication of 'The Nature of the Firm'

Birth of Ronald Coase

Published 'Phishing for Phools' with Robert Shiller

Published 'Identity Economics' with Rachel Kranton

Appointed President of the American Economic Association

Published 'Animal Spirits' with Robert Shiller

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics

Research on Identity Economics with Rachel Kranton

Publication of 'Irving Fisher on His Head: The Consequences of Constant Thrift'

Publication of 'The Economics of Caste and of the Rat Race and Other Woeful Tales'

Joined the Faculty at University of California, Berkeley

Publication of 'The Market for Lemons'

Death of W. Arthur Lewis

Publication of "Growth and Fluctuations: 1870-1913"

Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded

Knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II

Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies

Chair at the University College of the West Indies

Publication of "Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour"

Professorship at the University of Manchester

Graduation from London School of Economics

Birth of W. Arthur Lewis

James A. Robinson becomes institute director at Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts

Publication of 'The Narrow Corridor' by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

James A. Robinson appointed as University Professor at the University of Chicago

James A. Robinson delivered keynote at World Bank Conference on Development Economics

Publication of 'Why Nations Fail' by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

James A. Robinson appointed co-director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's program on Institutions, Organizations, and Growth

James A. Robinson appointed as Professor of Government at Harvard University

James A. Robinson joins University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Professor of Political Science

James A. Robinson co-founded the academic journal 'Economics & Politics'

Publication of 'Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy'

Awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Publication of "Mass Flourishing"

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Creation of the Center on Capitalism and Society

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics

Publication of Structural Slumps

Publication of "Political Economy"

Introduction of the Natural Rate of Unemployment Concept

Publication of Golden Rule Savings Rate

Birth of Edmund Phelps

Nobel Memorial Prize Awarded in Ohlin's Honor

Death of Bertil Ohlin

Ohlin Retires from Politics

Ohlin's Role in the Marshall Plan

Ohlin Elected to the Parliament of Sweden

Ohlin Speaks Out Against Nazi Occupation

Ohlin Becomes Leader of the Swedish People's Party

Publication of 'Interregional and International Trade'

Ohlin Becomes Professor at Stockholm School of Economics

Birth of Bertil Ohlin

Passing of Richard Stone

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Development of the System of National Accounts

Appointed as Director of the Department of Applied Economics

Publication of 'National Income and Expenditure'

Development of Input-Output Accounting

Birth of Richard Stone

Nobel Prize Lecture

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Presidency of American Finance Association

Election to National Academy of Sciences

Election to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Diamond-Dybvig Model Publication

Birth of Douglas Diamond

Publication of 'Good Economics for Hard Times'

Reception of Padma Bhushan Award

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Awarded to Banerjee

Publication of Research in Behavioral Economics

Publication of 'Poor Economics' by Banerjee and Duflo

Cofounding of J-PAL by Abhijit Banerjee

Commencement of Teaching Career at MIT

Ph.D. Awarded to Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee Begins Studies at Harvard

Birth of Abhijit Banerjee

Death of Douglass North

Publication of 'In the Shadow of Violence'

Publication of 'Violence and Social Orders'

Publication of 'Understanding the Process of Economic Change'

Publication of 'The Economic Growth of the United States 1790–1860'

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Publication of 'Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance'

Publication of 'The Rise of the Western World'

Birth of Douglass North

Death of Oliver E. Williamson

Award of Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association

Retirement from University of California, Berkeley

Justice Louis D. Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Law and Economics

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Awarded

Publication of 'The Economic Institutions of Capitalism'

Birth of Oliver E. Williamson

Death of Merton Miller

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Joining the University of Chicago Faculty

Dividend Irrelevance Theory

Publication of the Modigliani-Miller Theorem

Birth of Merton Miller

Released 'An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions'

Published 'The Idea of Justice'

Advocate for Food Security Legislation in India

Publication of 'Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny'

President of the American Economic Association

Appointed Master of Trinity College

Publication of 'Development as Freedom'

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics

Publication of 'Inequality Reexamined'

Birth of Amartya Sen

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Inaugural Winner of the Onassis Prize in Finance

Fama-French Five-Factor Model

Revisiting the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Fama-French Three-Factor Model

Publication of 'Foundations of Finance'

Efficient Market Hypothesis

Joint Work on Efficient Markets with Robert Merton

Doctoral Thesis: The Behavior of Stock-Market Prices

Birth of Eugene Fama

Death of James Tobin

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Proposes Tobin Tax

Publishes "On the Optimal Monetary Policy Rule"

Introduces Tobin's q

Starts Teaching at Yale University

Birth of James Tobin

Passing of Edward C. Prescott

Awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Publication of 'Business Cycles: Real Facts and a Monetary Myth'

Named Director of the Institute for Research in Economics and Business

Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded

American Economic Association Presidency

Publication of 'Time to Build and Aggregate Fluctuations'

Edward C. Prescott Earns His Ph.D.

Birth of Edward C. Prescott

Focus on Social Security Policy

Withdrawal from Federal Reserve Board Nomination

Nomination to Federal Reserve Board

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Work on Behavioral Economics

President of the American Economic Association

Introduction of Diamond-Mirrlees Efficiency Theorem

PhD from MIT

Graduation from Yale University

Birth of Peter Diamond

Death of Louis Renault

Labor Strikes at Renault

Great Depression Impact

Louis Renault Awarded Légion d'honneur

Contribution to World War I

First Major Commercial Success

Victory in Paris-Toulouse-Peugeot Race

Foundation of Renault Frères

First Renault Car Built

Birth of Louis Renault

Death of William Vickrey

Nobel Prize Award Announcement

Founding Member of the Economists Allied for Arms Reduction

Recognition with the Distinguished Fellow Award

Publication of Counterpoint Book

Creation of Vickrey Auction

Appointment at Columbia University

Ph.D. from Columbia University

Development of Vickrey–Pigou Traffic Congestion Theories

Birth of William Vickrey

Death of James Meade

Publication of 'The Collected Papers of James Meade'

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Published 'A Neoclassical Theory of Economic Growth'

Publication of 'Trade and Welfare'

Appointment as Professor of Commerce at the London School of Economics

Director of the Economic Section of the UK Cabinet Office

Joining the League of Nations Economic Intelligence Service

Graduation from Cambridge

Birth of James Meade