Backgrounder: Winners of Nobel Prize in Economics since 2006

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- The 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics are shared by Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom on Monday. The following is a list of the winners of the award since 2006:

2016: Oliver Hart(Britain), Bengt Holmstrom(Finland);

2015: Angus Deaton (Britain and U.S.);

2014: Jean Tirole (France);

2013: Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller (U.S.);

2012: Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley (U.S.);

2011: Christopher A. Sims and Thomas J. Sargent (U.S.);

2010: Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen (U.S.), Christopher Pissarides (Cyprus and Britain);

2009: Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson (U.S.);

2008: Paul Krugman (U.S.);

2007: Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson (U.S.);

2006: Edmund S. Phelps (U.S.);