2008年,55岁的美国经济学家保罗•克鲁格曼(Paul Krugman),因为其在贸易模式上所做的分析工作和对经济活动的定位。

2007年,赫维茨、马斯金、迈尔森,表彰他们在创建和发展“机制设计理论”方面所作的贡献

2006年,埃德蒙·费尔普斯,表彰他在加深人们对于通货膨胀和失业预期关系的理解方面所做的贡献

2005年,罗伯特·奥曼、托马斯·谢林,表彰他们通过对博弈论的分析，推进了人们对冲突与合作的理解

2004年,芬恩·基德兰德、爱德华·普雷斯科特,表彰他们在动态宏观经济学领域中所作的贡献

2003年,罗伯特·恩格尔、克莱夫·格兰杰,表彰他们在“时间序列分析”研究领域所作出的突破性贡献
2002年,丹尼尔·卡尼曼、弗农·史密斯,表彰他们在心理和实证经济学研究方面所做的开拓性工作

2001年,"for havingintegrated insights from psychological research into economicscience, especially concerning human judgment and decision-makingunder uncertainty"
"for having established laboratory experiments as a tool inempirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternativemarket mechanisms" George A. Akerlof, A. MichaelSpence, Joseph E. Stiglitz
2000年,"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information",James J. Heckman, Daniel L. McFadden
1999年,"for his development of theory and methods for analyzingselective samples" ;"for his development of theory and methods foranalyzing discrete choice" :Robert A.Mundell
1998年,"for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy underdifferent exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimumcurrency areas" ,Amartya Sen
1997年,"for his contributions to welfare economics" ,Robert C.Merton, Myron S. Scholes
1996年,"for a new method to determine the value of derivatives",James A. Mirrlees, William Vickrey
1995年,"for their fundamental contributions to the economic theoryof incentives under asymmetric information" ,Robert E. LucasJr.
1994年,"for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rationalexpectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysisand deepened our understanding of economic policy" ,John C.Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr., Reinhard Selten
1993年,"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory ofnon-cooperative games" ,Robert W. Fogel, Douglass C. North
1992年,"for having renewed research in economic history by applyingeconomic theory and quantitative methods in order to explaineconomic and institutional change" ,Gary S. Becker
1991年,"for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis toa wide range of human behaviour and interaction, includingnonmarket behaviour"Ronald H. Coase