The 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics went to three American economists on Monday. The following is a list of the winners of the award since 2003:

2013: Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller (US);

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

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

2010: Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen (US), Christopher Pissarides (Cyprus and Britain);

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

2008: Paul Krugman (US);

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

2006: Edmund S. Phelps (US);

2005: Thomas C. Schelling (US), Robert J. Aumann (US-Israel);

2004: Finn Kydland (Norway), Edward Prescott (US);

2003: Robert F. Engle (US), Clive W.J. Granger (Britain).