The Youtube channel of the Royal European Academy of Doctors-Barcelona 1914 (RAED) already has the video summary of the admission as honorary academician of Finn Kydland, winner of the Nobel prize in Economics in 2004, which was held in Barcelona on 12 June. Received the new member on behalf of the RAED the full academician José Ramón Calvo. The session was sponsored by the Cajasol Foundation and its president and also full academician of the RAED, Antonio Pulido, co-chaired the session with the president of the Royal Academy, Alfredo Rocafort.

Doctor by Carnegie Mellon University, Kydland received the Nobel prize with Edward Prescott for his contributions to dynamic macroeconomics, the consistency over time of economic policy and the driving forces of the business cycle. He is currently a professor at the University of California Santa Barbara.