Behavioral Economics – (For their contributions to behavioral economics, including issues of preferences, fairness, and cooperation.)
ERNST FEHR
Pro fessor and Director of the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland • Winner of the 2004 Cogito Prize of the Cogito Foundation and the 2008 Marcel Benoist Prize (Switzerland)
ESI Rank: top 1% in Economics, 9 highly cited papers in last decade
Environment Economics – For their contributions to environmental economics, particularly with respect to climate change.
WILLIAM D. NORDHAUS
Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA • Winner of the 2005 Distinguished Fellow Award of the American Economic Association • Ranked 108th in output and 49th in citations, according to Coupe rankings.
Monetary Economics – For their research on monetary policy
JOHN B. TAYLOR
Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, and Bowen H. and Mary Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA, USA • Recipient of the 2005 Alexander Hamilton Award, U.S. Treasury Department and the 2005 George P. Schultz Public Service Award, Stanford University.