Diamond förvånad: ”Det kom som en överraskning”

Ben Shalom Bernanke ( bər-NANG-kee; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Fed, he is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution During his tenure as chairman, Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve's response to the late-2000s financial crisis, for which he was named the 2009 Time Person of the Year. Before becoming Federal Reserve chairman, Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired the department of economics there from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on public service leave.From August 5, 2002, until June 21, 2005, he was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, proposed the Bernanke doctrine, and first discussed "the Great Moderation" — the theory that traditional business cycles have declined in volatility in recent decades through structural changes that have occurred in the international economy, particularly increases in the economic stability of developing nations, diminishing the influence of macroeconomic (monetary and fiscal) policy. Bernanke then served as chairman of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers before President Bush nominated him to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the United States Federal Reserve. His first term began February 1, 2006. Bernanke was confirmed for a second term as chairman on January 28, 2010, after being renominated by President Barack Obama, who later referred to him as "the epitome of calm." His second term ended January 31, 2014, when he was succeeded by Janet Yellen on February 3, 2014.Bernanke wrote about his time as chairman of the Federal Reserve in his 2015 book, The Courage to Act, in which he revealed that the world's economy came close to collapse in 2007 and 2008. Bernanke asserts that it was only the novel efforts of the Fed (cooperating with other agencies and agencies of foreign governments) that prevented an economic catastrophe greater than the Great Depression.

Douglas Warren Diamond (born 1953) is the Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He specializes in the study of financial intermediaries, financial crises, and liquidity. He is a former president of the American Finance Association and the Western Finance Association, a fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Finance Association. He got one half of Nobel Economics in 2022. Diamond is best known for his work on financial crises and bank runs, particularly the influential Diamond–Dybvig model published in 1983 and the Diamond model of delegated monitoring published in 1984. He was listed by Thomson Reuters as one of the "researchers likely to be in contention for Nobel honors based on the citation impact of their published research". In 2016, he was awarded the CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications.

Philip H. Dybvig (born May 22, 1955) is an American economist. He is the Boatmen's Bancshares Professor of Banking and Finance at the Olin Business School of Washington University in St. Louis. Dybvig specializes in Asset Pricing, Investments, and Corporate Governance. He was formerly a professor at Yale University, and assistant professor at Princeton University. Dybvig was president of the Western Finance Association from 2002 to 2003, and has been editor or associate editor of multiple journals, including the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Finance and Stochastics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Review of Financial Studies.Dybvig is known for his work with Douglas Diamond on the Diamond–Dybvig model of bank runs.

Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne, i dagligt tal ofta kallat Ekonomipriset eller (felaktigt) "Nobelpriset i ekonomi", är ett pris som instiftades av Sveriges Riksbank 1968 i samband med bankens 300-årsjubileum. Priset delades ut för första gången 1969, prissumman är den samma som för nobelprisen och utdelningen sker tillsammans med de fyra nobelpris som delas ut i Stockholm den 10 december årligen. Pristagare utses i början av oktober varje år av den svenska Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien, som även utser pristagare för Nobelpriset i fysik och Nobelpriset i kemi. Nomineringsproceduren och arbetet med att utse pristagare går till på samma sätt som för fysik- och kemiprisen, och sköts av Kommittén för Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne. Mottagarna av priset är dock inte nobelpristagare i egentlig mening.