Eugene Fama, Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller win Economics Nobel Prize

Stockholm: Americans Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday honored the three "for their empirical analysis of asset prices." Fama and Hansen teach at the University of Chicago. Shiller teaches at Yale.[caption id="attachment_1171205" align="alignleft" width="380"] Prof.Shiller is one of the recipients of this year's Nobel Prize in Economics. Wikimedia Commons. [/caption]The Nobel committees have now announced all six of the annual $1.2 million awards for 2013.The economics award is not a Nobel Prize in the same sense as the medicine, chemistry, physics, literature and peace prizes, which were created by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel in 1895.Sweden's central bank added the economics prize in 1968 as a memorial to Nobel.AP