イグノーベル賞 経済学部門 受賞者一覧
イグノーベル賞の経済学部門では、2026年「上流階級ほど非倫理的にふるまうという証拠」、2022年「成功するのは才能ある人より運の良い人だという数理的説明」、2021年「政治家の肥満度がその国の腐敗の指標になりうる発見」などを扱っています。
受賞研究
上流階級ほど非倫理的にふるまうという証拠
子ども用の菓子から自分の分を多く取る行動などを指標に、階層と非倫理的な行動の関係を調べた。
Paul Piff, Daniel Stancato, Stéphane Côté, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, and Dacher Keltner, for amassing evidence that upper class people are more likely to snatch from a children’s supply of candy, and engage in other kinds of unethical behavior.
- 受賞者
- Paul Piff, Daniel Stancato, Stéphane Côté, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Dacher Keltner
成功するのは才能ある人より運の良い人だという数理的説明
Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda, for explaining, mathematically, why success most often goes not to the most talented people, but instead to the luckiest. REFERENCE: “Talent vs. Luck: The Role of Randomness in Success and Failure,” Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda, Advances in Complex Systems, vol. 21, nos. 3 and 4, 2018. <https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219525918500145> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Biondo, Andrea Rapisarda [NOTE: This is the second Ig Nobel Prize awarded to Alessandro Pluchino and Andrea Rapisarda. The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize for Management was awarded to Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, and Cesare Garofalo, for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.]
- 受賞者
- Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda
政治家の肥満度がその国の腐敗の指標になりうる発見
: Pavlo Blavatskyy, for discovering that the obesity of a country’s politicians may be a good indicator of that country’s corruption. REFERENCE: “Obesity of Politicians and Corruption in Post‐Soviet Countries,” Pavlo Blavatskyy, Economic of Transition and Institutional Change, vol. 29, no. 2, 2021, pp. 343-356. WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Pavlo Blavatskyy
- 受賞者
- : Pavlo Blavatskyy
国の所得格差と口づけの平均回数の関係の定量化
Christopher Watkins, Juan David Leongómez, Jeanne Bovet, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz, Max Korbmacher, Marco Antônio Corrêa Varella, Ana Maria Fernandez, Danielle Wagstaff, and Samuela Bolgan, for trying to quantify the relationship between different countries’ national income inequality and the average amount of mouth-to-mouth kissing. REFERENCE: “National Income Inequality Predicts Cultural Variation in Mouth to Mouth Kissing,” Christopher D. Watkins, Juan David Leongómez, Jeanne Bovet, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz, Max Korbmacher, Marco Antônio Corrêa Varella, Ana Maria Fernandez, Danielle Wagstaff, and Samuela Bolgan, Scientific Reports, vol. 9, article no. 6698, 2019. WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE CEREMONY: Christopher Watkins
- 受賞者
- Christopher Watkins, Juan David Leongómez, Jeanne Bovet, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz, Max Korbmacher, Marco Antônio Corrêa Varella, Ana Maria Fernandez, Danielle Wagstaff, and Samuela Bolgan
どの国の紙幣が細菌を最もよく媒介するかの検証
Habip Gedik, Timothy A. Voss, and Andreas Voss, for testing which country’s paper money is best at transmitting dangerous bacteria. REFERENCE: “Money and Transmission of Bacteria,” Habip Gedik, Timothy A. Voss, and Andreas Voss, Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, vol. 2, no. 2, 2013. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Andreas Voss and Timothy Voss (who are father and son)
- 受賞者
- Habip Gedik, Timothy A. Voss, and Andreas Voss
呪いの人形で上司に仕返しすることの効果の検証
Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, D. Lance Ferris, and Lisa Keeping, for investigating whether it is effective for employees to use Voodoo dolls to retaliate against abusive bosses.
- 受賞者
- Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, D. Lance Ferris, and Lisa Keeping
生きたワニに触れると賭けの意欲がどう変わるかの実験
Matthew Rockloff and Nancy Greer, for their experiments to see how contact with a live crocodile affects a person’s willingness to gamble.
- 受賞者
- Matthew Rockloff and Nancy Greer
岩石の「性格」を販売の観点から評価した研究
Mark Avis, Sarah Forbes, and Shelagh Ferguson, for assessing the perceived personalities of rocks, from a sales and marketing perspective.
- 受賞者
- Mark Avis, Sarah Forbes, and Shelagh Ferguson
賄賂を断った警官に追加の現金を払う施策
The Bangkok Metropolitan Police [THAILAND], for offering to pay policemen extra cash if the policemen refuse to take bribes.
- 受賞者
- The Bangkok Metropolitan Police [THAILAND]
売春と違法薬物をGDPに算入して経済規模を増やしたこと
: ISTAT — the Italian government’s National Institute of Statistics, for proudly taking the lead in fulfilling the European Union mandate for each country to increase the official size of its national economy by including revenues from prostitution, illegal drug sales, smuggling, and all other unlawful financial transactions between willing participants.
- 受賞者
- : ISTAT — the Italian government’s National Institute of Statistics
利益を最大化し危険を他者に回す新しい投資手法
The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways to invest money — ways that maximize financial gain and minimize financial risk for the world economy, or for a portion thereof.
- 受賞者
- The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar
小さな銀行を巨大銀行に、またその逆にできる実証
The directors, executives, and auditors of four Icelandic banks — Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, Glitnir Bank, and Central Bank of Iceland — for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa — and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy.
- 受賞者
- The directors, executives, and auditors of four Icelandic banks — Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, Glitnir Bank, and Central Bank of Iceland —
ラップダンサーの収入は排卵期に増えるという発見
Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan of the University of New Mexico, USA, for discovering that professional lap dancers earn higher tips when they are ovulating.
- 受賞者
- Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan of the University of New Mexico, USA
銀行強盗を網で捕らえる装置の特許
Kuo Cheng Hsieh, for patenting a device, in the year 2001, that catches bank robbers by dropping a net over them.
- 受賞者
- Kuo Cheng Hsieh
逃げて隠れる目覚まし時計の発明
Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday.
- 受賞者
- Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
祈りをインドへ外注したこと
The Vatican, for outsourcing prayers to India.
- 受賞者
- The Vatican
国全体を式典用に貸し出せるようにしたこと
Karl Schwärzler and the nation of Liechtenstein, for making it possible to rent the entire country for corporate conventions, weddings, bar mitzvahs, and other gatherings.
- 受賞者
- Karl Schwärzler and the nation of Liechtenstein
虚数の概念をビジネスの世界へ応用したこと
The executives, corporate directors, and auditors of Enron, Lernaut & Hauspie [Belgium], Adelphia, Bank of Commerce and Credit International [Pakistan], Cendant, CMS Energy, Duke Energy, Dynegy, Gazprom [Russia], Global Crossing, HIH Insurance [Australia], Informix, Kmart, Maxwell Communications [UK], McKessonHBOC, Merrill Lynch, Merck, Peregrine Systems, Qwest Communications, Reliant Resources, Rent-Way, Rite Aid, Sunbeam, Tyco, Waste Management, WorldCom, Xerox, and Arthur Andersen, for adapting the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers for use in the business world. [NOTE: all companies are U.S.-based unless otherwise noted.]
- 受賞者
- The executives, corporate directors, and auditors of Enron, Lernaut & Hauspie [Belgium], Adelphia, Bank of Commerce and Credit International [Pakistan], Cendant, CMS Energy, Duke Energy, Dynegy, Gazprom [Russia], Global Crossing, HIH Insurance [Australia], Informix, Kmart, Maxwell Communications [UK], McKessonHBOC, Merrill Lynch, Merck, Peregrine Systems, Qwest Communications, Reliant Resources, Rent-Way, Rite Aid, Sunbeam, Tyco, Waste Management, WorldCom, Xerox, and Arthur Andersen
相続税が下がるなら人は死期を先延ばしにする結論
Joel Slemrod, of the University of Michigan Business School, and Wojciech Kopczuk, of University of British Columbia [and who has since moved to Columbia University], for their conclusion that people find a way to postpone their deaths if that would qualify them for a lower rate on the inheritance tax.
- 受賞者
- Joel Slemrod, of the University of Michigan Business School, and Wojciech Kopczuk, of University of British Columbia [and who has since moved to Columbia University]
集団結婚を効率化し規模を拡大し続けたこと
The Reverend Sun Myung Moon, for bringing efficiency and steady growth to the mass-marriage industry, with, according to his reports, a 36-couple wedding in 1960, a 430-couple wedding in 1968, an 1800-couple wedding in 1975, a 6000-couple wedding in 1982, a 30,000-couple wedding in 1992, a 360,000-couple wedding in 1995, and a 36,000,000-couple wedding in 1997.
- 受賞者
- The Reverend Sun Myung Moon
自分自身のクローンで経済を活性化する試み
Richard Seed of Chicago for his efforts to stoke up the world economy by cloning himself and other human beings.
- 受賞者
- Richard Seed of Chicago
仮想ペットの世話に費やされた膨大な労働時間
Akihiro Yokoi of Wiz Company in Chiba, Japan and Aki Maita of Bandai Company in Tokyo, the father and mother of Tamagotchi, for diverting millions of person-hours of work into the husbandry of virtual pets.
- 受賞者
- Akihiro Yokoi of Wiz Company in Chiba, Japan and Aki Maita of Bandai Company in Tokyo, the father and mother of Tamagotchi
経済的な逼迫が歯周病の危険指標になる発見
Dr. Robert J. Genco of the University of Buffalo for his discovery that “financial strain is a risk indicator for destructive periodontal disease.
- 受賞者
- Dr. Robert J. Genco of the University of Buffalo
微分で金融機関にも限界があることを示したこと
Awarded jointly to Nick Leeson and his superiors at Barings Bank and to Robert Citron of Orange County, California, for using the calculus of derivatives to demonstrate that every financial institution has its limits.
- 受賞者
- Awarded jointly to Nick Leeson and his superiors at Barings Bank and to Robert Citron of Orange County, California
誤発注を取り返そうとして損失を膨らませた取引
Jan Pablo Davila of Chile, tireless trader of financial futures and former employee of the state-owned Codelco Company, for instructing his computer to “buy” when he meant “sell,” and subsequently attempting to recoup his losses by making increasingly unprofitable trades that ultimately lost .5 percent of Chile’s gross national product. Davila’s relentless achievement inspired\ his countrymen to coin a new verb: ” davilar,” meaning, “to botch things up royally.”
- 受賞者
- Jan Pablo Davila of Chile, tireless trader of financial futures and former employee of the state-owned Codelco Company
著書を売りまくって世界経済崩壊を防いだこと
Ravi Batra of Southern Methodist University, shrewd economist and best-selling author of “The Great Depression of 1990” ($17.95) and “Surviving the Great Depression of 1990” ($18.95), for selling enough copies of his books to single-handedly prevent worldwide economic collapse.
- 受賞者
- Ravi Batra of Southern Methodist University, shrewd economist and best-selling author of “The Great Depression of 1990” ($17.95) and “Surviving the Great Depression of 1990” ($18.95)
損失の支払いを拒んで災害を保険にした試み
The investors of Lloyds of London, heirs to 300 years of dull prudent management, for their bold attempt to insure disaster by refusing to pay for their company’s losses.
- 受賞者
- The investors of Lloyds of London, heirs to 300 years of dull prudent management
ジャンク債の考案者に贈られた経済学賞
Michael Milken, titan of Wall Street and father of the junk bond, to whom the world is indebted.
- 受賞者
- Michael Milken, titan of Wall Street and father of the junk bond, to whom the wo