A trio of U.S. economists including Former Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke won this year’s Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for research on how propping up failing banks can stave off deeper economic crisis. Bernanke, along with Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig won the prize for their work starting in the early 1980s that carried practical importance in regulating financial markets and dealing with financial crises. 

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