Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
The first prize in economics was awarded in 1969 to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes". In 2009, Elinor Ostrom became the first woman awarded the prize.
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.