Prizes and Awards

Fernando Vega-Redondo  has recently been elected to the Council of the Game Theory Society . It is a sign of professional recognition which honors Professor Vega-Redondo with the company of very prominent game theorists.

 

Fernando Vega-Redondo. The jury of the Urrutia Elejalde Diversity Prize unanimously agreed to  Professor Fernando Vega Redondo   as the winner of the prize's second edition for the year 2011. News Item 

 

Andrei Sirchenko (Eco Researcher) won a research grant of €4600 in the Third National Bank of Poland's Open Research Competition for  his project "Middle-inflated discrete-choice models for policy interest rate."

 

Patricio Andres Valenzuela Aros (Eco Researcher) received an award for one of the Best European Finance Association Doctoral Tutorial papers for his work “Rollover Risk and Corporate Bond spreads”. As part of the prize, he is invited to present it at the fall meeting of the Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) in Chicago in September 2011.

 

Cristiana Benedetti Fasil (Eco PhD 2011) and Teodora Borota (Eco PhD 2009) won the prize for the best paper presented at "The First Annnual Conference for Young Serbian Economists", organized by the National Bank of Serbia (Belgrade, 22-23 June 2011), for their paper "World Trade Patterns and Prices: The Role of Productivity and Quality Heterogeneity".

 

Susanne Forstner   (Eco Researcher) received one of three best paper awards at the XVI Workshop on Dynamic Macroeconomics organized by the University of Vigo (June 29 to July 1 2011) for her paper "On-the-Job Search, Mobility Costs and Wage Inequality".

 

Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr (Eco PhD 2010) and Friederike Niepmann (Eco 3rd year PhD student) won the Klaus Liebscher Award 2011 for their paper "Bank Bailouts, International Linkages and Cooperation". The authors were invited to the Economics Conference of the OeNB on May 2011 to receive the award.

 

Stelios Bekiros (Eco Marie Curie Fellow) received the Best Reviewer Prize/Award for 2010 by the prestigious European Journal of Operational Research (Impact factor 2.093).

 

Gabriel Felbermayr (Eco PhD 2004) won the Best Paper Award at the FIW Research Conference, Vienna in December 2010.

 

Gernot Mueller (Eco PhD 2005) and Zeno Enders (Eco PhD 2007)  won the Klaus Liebscher Award 2010 of the Austrian Central Bank (joint with Philip Jung) for the paper "Has the Euro changed the Business Cycle?" Gernot Müller won Klaus Liebscher Award 2010

 

Sascha O. Becker (Eco PhD 2001) won the 2010 Prize for Academic Research by the Friends of the Ifo Institute for the paper: "Was Weber Wrong?".

 

Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr (Eco PhD 2010) won the Best Paper Award for "Towards a Theory of Trade Finance" at the Xth RIEF Doctoral Meeting, Kiel 2010. Best Article Award Goes to Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr 

 

Andrei Sirchenko (Eco Researcher) was awarded a research grant of $10,000 by the Global Development Network via the 28th Economics Education and Research Consortium Grant Competition. 

 

Charles Gottlieb (Eco Researcher, and Guido Ruta (Eco Max Weber Fellow) won prizes for their presentations at the XV Workshop on Dynamic Macroeconomics in June 2010 in Vigo, Spain.  Prizes Given to Charles Gottlieb and Guido Ruta 

 

Economics Professor Luigi Guiso was awarded the prestigious Smith Breeden Prize at the American Financial Association’s annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on 4 January 2010 for his paper “Trusting the Stock Market,” published in The Journal of Finance. Smith Breeden Prize Awarded to Luigi Guiso