Thomson Reuters predicts who will win the Nobel Prize for Economics this year

Thomson Reuters prediction of 2013 Nobel Laureates

Distinguished Service Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, US

Sam Pelzman has been nominated for his contribution in extending economic theories of regulation

Sam Peltzman, For extending economic theories of regulation

Sam Peltzman

Judge, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School, US

Richard A Posner has also been nominated for his contribution in extending economic theories of regulation

Richard A Posner, For extending economic theories of regulation

Richard A Posner

Ford Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US

Joshua D Angrist has been nominated for his contribution to the advancement of empirical microeconomics

Joshua D Angrist, For advancement of empirical microeconomics

Joshua D Angrist

Bendheim Professor of Economics, Princeton University, SA

Alan Krueger has been nominated for his contribution to the advancement of empirical microeconomics

Alan B Krueger, For advancement of empirical microeconomics

Alan B Krueger

He is a Professor of Economics at University of Oxford, UK

Sir David F Hendry has been nominated for his contribution to economic time-series, including modelling, testing and forecasting

Sir David F Hendry, For Contribution to economic time-series, including modelling, testing and forecasting

Sir David F Hendry

Sterling professor of Economics, Professor of Statistics, Yale University, US

Peter C B Phillips has been nominated for his contribution to economic time-series, including modelling, testing and forecasting

Peter C B Phillips, For Contribution to economic time-series, including modelling, testing and forecasting

Peter C B Phillips

John Elliot Distinguished Chair in Economics & Professor of Economics, and Emeritus Professor of Economics & Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, US and University of Cambridge, UK

M Hashem Pesaran has been nominated for his contribution to economic time-series, including modelling, testing and forecasting