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2024 Economic Journalism Award

The Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics awards the Economic Journalism Award to

• Fabio Canetg and his podcast series «Geldcast»

At the heart of this innovative format are well-structured interviews with leading economists from academia as well as from the private sector and from policy making. Fabio Canetg thereby makes rigorous economic thinking accessible to a Swiss audience beyond the established outlets for economic news.

2024 SSES Young Economist Award

The SSES Young Economist Award of the 2024 Annual Congress in Lucerne is presented to 

• Patrick Bigler and Benedikt Janzen for the paper «Green spills: Peer effects in pro-environmental behaviors».

The SSES Young Economist Award is granted on every Annual Congress of the Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES) since 2007. The prize (CHF 2'000) is awarded for the best paper where all co-authors are less than 33 years old.

 

2024 SJES Best Paper Award

The Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics presents the SJES Best Paper Award 2024 to

• Fabienne Helfer, Volker Grossmann and Aderonke Osikominu for the paper «How does immigration affect housing costs in Switzerland?» published in 2023 in volume 159 of the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics.

 

Past Awards

2023 Economic Journalism Award:

• Mark Dittli for his analytical and fact-based coverage of economics and finance topics of relevance for Switzerland. In addition to providing in-depth analysis, Mark Dittli experiments with new media platforms and channels to foster dissemination and discussion.

2023 SSES Young Economist Award in Neuchâtel 

• Véra Zabrodina for the paper «Timing Moral Hazard under Deductibles in Health Insurance».

2022 Economic Journalism Award:

• Hansueli Schöchli for his analytical and fact-based writing about economic policy issues in Switzerland. Schöchli consistently emphasizes incentives and constraints; he summarizes relevant empirical research; and he offers back of the envelope calculations that provide helpful perspectives on the issues at hand.

2022 SSES Young Economist Award in Fribourg:

• Ulrike Unterhofer for the paper «Peer Effects in Active Labour Market Policies»

2021 SSES Young Economist Award in Zurich (online):

• Kumar Rishabh and Jorma Schäublin for the paper «Fintech Lending and Sales Manipulation»

2019 SSES Young Economist Award in Genf:

• Katharina Erhardt for the paper «Born to be an entrepreneur? How cultural origin affects entrepreneurship»

2018 SSES Young Economist Award in St.Gallen:

• Andrea Camilli for the paper «Labor market institutions and homeownership»
• Helge Liebert and Beatrice Mäder for the paper «Health care supply and infant mortality: Semiparametric evidence from Germany, 1928-1936»

2017 SSES Young Economist Award in Lausanne:

• Liu Liu for the paper «How Nations Evolve: Political Accountability and Developmental Trajectories»

2016 SSES Young Economist Award in Lugano:

• Ulrich Matter and Michaela Slotwinski for the paper «Precise Control over Legislative Vote Outcomes: A Forensic Approach to Political Economics»

2015 SSES Young Economist Award in Basel:

•  Esther Mirjam Girsberger for the paper «Migration, Education and Work Opportunities»

2014 SSES Young Economist Award in Bern:

• Lukas Schmid and Stefan Legge for the paper «Rankings, Random Successes, and Individual Performance»

2013 SSES Young Economist Award in Neuchâtel:

• Timo Boppart and Franziska J. Weiss for the paper «Non-homothetic preferences and industry directed technical change»
• Nicolas Berman and Mathieu Couttenier for the paper «External shocks, internal shots – the geography of civil conflicts»

2012 SSES Young Economist Award in Zurich:

• Baptiste Massenot and Kenza Benhima for the paper «Safety Traps»

2011 SSES Young Economist Award in Lucerne:

• Carlo Strub and Andrew Clausen for the paper «Envelope Theorems for Non-Smooth and Non-Concave Optimization»

2010 SSES Young Economist Award in Fribourg:

• Alexander Tarasov for the paper «Per Capita Income, Market Access Costs, and Trade Volumes»
• Timo Boppart for the paper «Engel's law and growth and directed technical change»

2009 SSES Young Economist Award in Geneva:

• Benjamin Jung for the paper «On the Importance of Adjustment Dynamics for Bilateral Trade Flows»
• Sarah Lein and Eva Köberl for the paper «Capacity Utilisation, Constraints and price Adjustments under the Microscope»

2008 SSES Young Economist Award in Lausanne:

• Conny Wunsch for the paper «Optimal use of labour market policies»

2007 SSES Young Economist Award in St.Gallen:

• Enrico De Giorgi and Francesco Audrino for the paper «Beta Regimes for the Yield Curve»
• Manuel Oechslin for the paper «Foreign Aid, Political Instability, and Economic Growth»

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