The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018
Awarded on: 2018-10-01
"for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis"
Affiliations:
- NYU Stern School of Business – New York, NY, USA
Paul M. Romer
Born: 1955-00-00 in Denver, CO, USA
Gender: male
Field: American economist
Biography
Paul Michael Romer is an American economist and policy entrepreneur who is a Seidner University Professor in Finance at Boston College. Romer is best known as the former Chief Economist of the World Bank and for co-receiving the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in endogenous growth theory. He also coined the term "mathiness," which he describes as misuse of mathematics in economic research.