2026 economics Nobel: Americans Robert Hall and Michael Woodford honoured for the tools of economic stabilisation
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SpainMadrid reads this Nobel as the rehabilitation of anti-crisis tools: the microeconomics of Hall and Woodford is said to have given central banks and governments back the means to smooth economic cycles.
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AustraliaCanberra takes from the 2026 economics Nobel a toolbox for central banks: the Australian press mainly relays the committee's wording on energy shocks and changes in household consumption.
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Expansión's account presents the laureates as the ones who taught central banks to curb shocks.
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both articles put the committee's statement on central banks' use of the models front and center.
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the coverage reports no Australian reaction or application of this work, and mostly cites the Swedish source.
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HuffPost España bases its text on the Academy's own terms.
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