The most important Nobel prize will be announced on Monday. Now, if you did not already bet in the “Harvard pool” (at the very end of the day I didn’t bet there for a most silly reason: I could not find in the whole of DK a 1$ bill to mail with my proposal :-)), here you can see other betting pools and the predictions of Thomson ISI. And as I previously said, tomorrow I’ll announce my own, winning, forecast 🙂
It looks like Elhanan Helpman & Gene Grossman have the best odds overall; indeed international trade seems to be a/the hype lately (and indeed Helpman and Grossman deserve the Nobel, sooner or later). Though my personal wish is that Dale Mortensen wins it this year (he will for sure win it in one the coming years, most likely joint with Peter Diamond and Chris Pissarides, for developing the search models; but why not just now?), especially since he just gave me excellent comments & critique at this (ex post very good!) “Labour Market Dynamics Growth” conference in Sandbjerg from where I returned yesterday– and that despite the fact that I made a mess out of my presentation :-). Dale for Nobel!
