Raghuram Rajan in list of likely Nobel laureates
NEWDELHI:Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan’s name figures in this year’s list of possible winners of Nobel Prize in economics brought out by Clarivate Analytics. The economics prize will be announced in Stockholm on Monday, says Nobelprize.org.
Clarivate Analytics, earlier a Thomson Reuters unit, publishes a list of possible Nobel Prize winners based on research citations, ahead of the formal announcement by the Nobel committee.
Rajan is currently the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.
Giving the list of six possible candidates for the economics Nobel, Clarivate said these were Citation Laureates — standouts whose research is clearly “of Nobel Class” according to its significance and utility, as attested by markedly high citation tallies recorded in the Web of Science.
As per information available on Clarivate’s website, in the last 15 years, 45 of the selected researchers had gone on to receive a Nobel — nine in the same year in which they were tipped by Clarivate.
Rajan’s three-year term as governor ended on September 4, 2016. A year after his term came to an end, Rajan published a book with his “commentary ” to convey what it was like to be at the helm of the central bank in “those turbulent but exciting times”.
THE ECONOMICS PRIZE WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN STOCKHOLM ON MONDAY, ACCORDING TO NOBELPRIZE.ORG