Four Nobel economists on the biggest challenges for 2016

Jan 17, 2016

A man walks past an electronic board showing Japan's Nikkei average outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan January 12, 2016. Japan's Nikkei fell 2.7 percent after a market holiday on Monday, closing at its lowest in nearly a year, while U.S. stock mini futures were in the red pointing to a weak start.

How to manage risk, sluggish productivity, deteriorating patterns of growth, relocating refugees – what keeps economists up at night? Image: REUTERS/Toru Hanai

Alvin Roth

Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Edmund S. Phelps

Director, The Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University

A. Michael Spence

William R. Berkley Professor in Economics and Business, NYU Stern School of Business

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