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The Nobel Prize winners’ research took on great real-world significance when investors sent the financial system into a panic during the fall of 2008.
A US trio including ex-Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke, who played a key role battling the 2008 financial crisis, won the economics Nobel on Monday for research on banks in times of turmoil.