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by em500 1349 days ago
First, if you want to be pedantic it's actually the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel". But nobody cares about about formal names if they're unwieldy[1].

Second, the comittee based the award on academic works from the 1980s. For Bernanke, that would be mostly his AER papers [2,3,4,5]. (The AER is one of the top journals in economics and 2 or 3 publications will probably get you a tenure position at most top universities.) The full papers are paywalled, but the interested can get the unpaywalled NBER versions of them (with the same title) for free.

[1] https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-02

[2] https://econpapers.repec.org/article/aeaaecrev/v_3a71_3ay_3a...

[3] https://econpapers.repec.org/article/aeaaecrev/v_3a73_3ay_3a...

[4] https://econpapers.repec.org/article/aeaaecrev/v_3a76_3ay_3a...

[5] https://econpapers.repec.org/article/aeaaecrev/v_3a78_3ay_3a...

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Let's not pretend that his role as Fed chairman during the greatest financial crisis in generations didn't have any influence on this decision.