Simon Johnson, Co-Chair of the CFA Institute Systemic Risk Council, Awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

WASHINGTON, D.C. — October 17, 2024

Earlier this week, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 to Simon Johnson – Co-Chair of the Systemic Risk Council – together with Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and James A. Robinson of the University of Chicago. Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson received this honor for their research into how institutions are formed and affect differences in prosperity between nations.

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