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title: Nobel prize in Economics
date: "2003-10-09T12:00:00Z"
categories:
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wp_id: 883
description: I visited the corridor near Robert Engle's office shortly before he and Clive Granger won the Nobel Prize in Economics for developing ARCH models, marking the closest I've ever been to a Nobel laureate.
keywords: [robert engle, clive granger, nobel prize, econometrics, arch models, stern school of business]
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[![Stern corridor, near Engle's office](/blog/assets/flickr-stern-corridor-near-engles-office_24685633_o-jpg.webp)](/blog/assets/flickr-stern-corridor-near-engles-office_24685633_o-jpg.webp)

[Robert Engle and Clive Granger won the Nobel Prize](http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=3579142&section=news) for their work on ARCH and something-or-the-other-I-ought-to-have-studied-at-B-school. I was outside Engle's office last month (somewhere within 100m of the corridor in the photo), and that's the closest I've been to an Nobel laureate. Of course, **some** people know him personally and discuss 'stupid problems' with him.