MIT, the same institution that produced one of this year's Nobel prize winners in economics, has introduced a new blended "micromasters" program that can help people earn their master's degree in data ...

Two MIT economists were among those awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for their decades of work illuminating the relationship between political institutions and economic prosperity.

Two MIT professors have won the Nobel Prize in economics. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson PhD ‘89 were awarded the prize on Monday for research that explains why societies with poor rule of law and ...

Designing contracts is a tricky business. For their groundbreaking work on how to make contracts fairer and more effective, Oliver Hart of Harvard University and Bengt Holmstrom of the Massachusetts ...

CHICAGO, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), announced its 15th Innovative ...

In yet another win at the institutions this year, Harvard and MIT today are celebrating the news that three of their researchers have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. Abhijit Banerjee and ...

Economists from Harvard and MIT shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday morning. Harvard’s Oliver Hart, a 68-year-old, London-born economics ...

Reporting from Washington — Two professors at American universities on Monday were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for their contributions to the understanding of contracts and how they apply to ...

Professor Esther Duflo was awoken early Monday morning at her Boston home by a phone call informing her that she had won the Nobel Prize in economics. She was sharing the award with two others, ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research that explains why societies with poor rule of law and ...