An IU alumnus is one of three American economists to split the 2022 Nobel Prize in economic sciences.
Washington University professor Phillip H. Dybvig graduated from IU with a B.A. in mathematics and physics in 1976. He received the award alongside former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke and University of Chicago professor Douglas Diamond for research on bank runs and liquidity.
Dybvig won the award for his 1983 paper Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity, which helped explain the central role of banks in financial crises as intermediaries between savers and borrowers.
The cash prize worth roughly $900,000 will be split evenly between Dybvig, Bernanke and Diamond.
Dybvig is the latest IU alumnus or faculty to win a Nobel Prize and the first since economics professor Elinor Ostrom in 2009.
BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig “for research on banks and financial crises.” #NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/cW0sLFh2sj — The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 10, 2022
