Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Laureates in the Memorial Prize in Economics are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It was first awarded in 1969 to the Dutch and Norwegian economists Jan Tinbergen and Ragnar Frisch, "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes".
Andrew Metrick
Metrick graduated from Yale in 1989 with a joint bachelors and masters degree in economics. While an undergraduate at Yale, Metrick was a research assistant for Nobel Laureate and Sterling Professor of Economics and Finance James Tobin for 3 years. Metrick received his PhD in economics from Harvard in 1994, where his advisor was Eric Maskin, who won the Nobel Price in Economics in 2007.