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Sweden - Prize matchmakers

TWO American scholars were awarded the Nobel economics prize for studies on match-making that takes place when doctors are matched with hospitals, students with schools and human organs with transplant recipients. The work of Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley has sparked a "flourishing field of research" and helped improve the performance of many markets, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.



 

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