On each and every years, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences receives 200 to 300 nominations. For Economics prize, experts in the Selection Committee of the Academy are 5-8 members who make studies on candidates. Usually in the month of October the Academy meets to have final decision.
Announcements to the Nobel Laureates in Economics take place during a conference at Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences situated in Stockholm.
For the year 2007, the Nobel Prize winners in Economics Science are Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S Maskin, and Roger B. Myerson for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.
The theory was initiated by Emeritus Leo Hurwicz and further developed by Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson. The theory has immense significance by identifying efficient trading mechanism.