Prize Announcement

Announcement of The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel by Professor Gunnar Öquist, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 9 October 2006. Presentation on the prize-awarded work by Professor Lars Calmfors, followed by a press conference with Edmund S. Phelps.

Following the announcement, Professor Jörgen Weibull, Chairman for the Economics Prize Committee, is interviewed by freelance journalist Marika Griehsel about the 2006 Economics Laureate.