In 2001, Alfred Nobel's great-grandnephew, Peter Nobel ( b. 1931 ), asked the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given " in Alfred Nobel's memory " from the five other awards.

This has caused much controversy whether the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is actually a " Nobel Prize "

* 1903 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize ( d. 1994 )

* 1944 – James Heckman, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize

* 1930 – Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize

* 1991 – George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner ( b. 1911 )

* 1911 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and Bank of Sweden Prize winner ( d. 1999 )

* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – George A. Akerlof, Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz

* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert Mundell

* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Richard Stone

* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – James Mirrlees, William Vickrey

* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Amartya Sen

* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Ronald Coase

* George Stigler is awarded The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert Solow

* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Daniel Kahneman and Vernon L. Smith

* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Finn E. Kydland, Edward C. Prescott

On 6 April 2011, the Bank of Sweden announced that Lindgren's portrait will feature on the 20 kronor banknote, beginning in 2014-15.

* The first National Bank in Europe ( the Riksbank ) is founded in Stockholm, Sweden.

The 2009 meeting participants in Greece included: Greek prime minister Kostas Karamanlis ; Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen ; Sweden foreign minister Carl Bildt ; United States Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg ; U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ; World Bank president Robert Zoellick ; European Commission head José Manuel Barroso ; Queen Sofia of Spain ; and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

* Press Release: The Sveriges Riksbank ( Bank of Sweden ) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 1997

The reason why the king is on the bill is because the Bank of Sweden was founded in 1668, during Charles ' reign.

Kenneth Arrow, Ronald Coase and Douglass North are some of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel winners who are known for their sympathy to the field.

* Finn E. Kydland, winner of Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2004

* June 28 – Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, Nobel Prize laureate

Current well-known economists include 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Paul Krugman, a public intellectual and advocate of modern liberal policies ; Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Ben Bernanke, the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Joseph Stiglitz, an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner, critic of inequality and the governance of globalization, and Chief Economist of the World Bank.

* Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics

He won the Canada Council Molson Prize in 1971, and the Royal Bank Award in 1978.

The Grameen Bank and its founder Muhammad Yunus were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering micro-credit.

In the event the rupees set aside for loans under Section 104 ( E ) of the Act are not advanced within six years from the date of this Agreement because the Export-Import Bank of Washington has not approved loans or because proposed loans have not been mutually agreeable to the Export-Import Bank of Washington and the Department of Economic Affairs of the Government of India, the Government of the United States of America may use the rupees for any purpose authorized by Section 104 of the Act.

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Common targets include the World Bank ( WB ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) and free trade treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ), the Multilateral Agreement on Investment ( MAI ) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ).

Also, George Soros, Joseph E. Stiglitz ( another Economic Sciences Nobel prize winner, formerly of the World Bank, author of Globalization and Its Discontents ) and David Korten have made arguments for drastically improving transparency, for debt relief, land reform, and restructuring corporate accountability systems.

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The Central African Republic is an active member in several Central African organizations, including the Economic and Monetary Union ( CEMAC ), the Economic Community of Central African States ( CEEAC ), the Central African Peace and Security Council ( COPAX-still under formation ), and the Central Bank of Central African States ( BEAC ).

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