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Stockholm, Oct 9: American Edmund Phelps won the 2006 Nobel prize for economics for research into the interplay between inflation and unemployment expectations, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said today.

Phelps, of Columbia University, won for research showing that wage and price trends depend on expectations for both inflation and unemployment, the Academy said as it announced the award worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.37 million).

REUTERS