Pictures of the winners of the 2020 Nobel prize in economic sciences, Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson, are displayed on a screen at a news conference in Stockholm, Sweden October 12, 2020. Image Credit: ReutersStockholm: American economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for their work on commercial auctions, the Nobel Committee said. Also a professor at Stanford, Milgrom and Wilson live on the same street. "My wife is pointing out that we bought ski boots on eBay, I guess that was an auction," Wilson said. The award closes the 2020 Nobel season, which saw the closely-watched peace prize awarded to the UN's World Food Programme.

Source: Ethiopian News October 12, 2020 10:03 UTC