2018-2019
This contest was held in conjunction with the 2019 conference in Ottawa. The results:- Winner: Matthew Oldham, George Mason University, "Quantifying the Concerns of Dimon and Buffett with Data and Computation"
- Finalist: Natascha Hinterlang, Deutsche Bundesbank and Goethe University Frankfurt, "Predicting Monetary Policy Using Articial Neural Networks"
- Finalist: Soyoung Lee, Ohio State, "The Role of Firm Heterogeneity in Earnings Inequality"
2017-2018
This contest was held in conjunction with the 2018 conference in Milan.- Winner: Alessandro Villa and Vytautas Valaitis, Duke University, "Machine Learning Projection Methods for Macro-Finance Models"
- Finalist: Magdalena Tywoniuk, Department of Finance, University of Geneva & Swiss Finance Institute, "CDS Central Counterparty Clearing Liquidation: Road to Recovery or Invitation to Predation?"
- Finalist: Nobuhide Okahata, Ohio State University, "An Alternative Solution Method for Continuous-Time Heterogeneous Agent Models with Aggregate Shocks"
2016-2017
This contest was held in conjunction with the 2017 conference in New York.- Winner: Gregor Boehl, CeNDEF Amsterdam, "Monetary Policy and Speculative Stock Markets"
- Finalist: Felix Mauersberger, Pompeu Fabra, "Monetary Policy Rules in a Non-Rational World"
- Finalist: Jesper Riedler, ZEW Mannheim, "Evaluating Regulation within an Artificial Financial System"
2015-2016
This contest was held in conjunction with the 2016 conference in Bordeaux.- Winner: Peter Zorn, Goethe University Frankfurt, "Investment under Rational Inattention: Evidence from US Sectoral Data"
- Finalist: Jeremy Boccanfuso, Paris School of Economics, "The Expectation Formation Process along the Business Cycle: More Information or Better Information?"
- Finalist: Wieland Hoffmann, University of Mannheim, "What Drives the Volatility and Persistence of House Price Growth?"
2014-2015
This contest was held in conjunction with the 2015 conference in Taipei.- Winner: Markus Riegler, London School of Economics, "The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks on the Job-Finding Rate and Separation Rate"
- Finalist: Philip Harting, Bielefeld University, Germany, "Stabilization Policies and Long Term Growth: Policy Implications from an Agent-based Macroeconomic Model"
- Finalist: Camillo Jiménez-Morales, University of Maryland, "Information Frictions, Nominal Shocks, and the Role of Inventories in Price-Setting Decisions"
2013-2014
This contest was held in conjunction with the 2014 conference in Oslo.- Daan in 't Velda, University of Amsterdam, "Limitations of Demand Constraints in Stabilising Financial Markets with Heterogeneous Beliefs"
- In Hwan Jo and Tatsuro Senga, Ohio State University, Size Distribution and Firm Dynamics in an Economy with Credit Shocks
- Jasmina Hasanhodzic, Boston University, "Increasing Borrowing Costs and the Equity Premium"
2012-2013
This contest was held in conjunction with the 2013 conference in Vancouver.- Winner: Thomas G. Ruchti, California Institute of Technology, "Estimating an Equilibrium Model of Limit Order Markets"
- Finalist: Galen Sher and Pedro Vitória, University of Oxford, "An Information-Theoretic Test for Dependence with an Application to the Temporal Structure of Stock Returns"
- Finalist: Marcin Wolski, University of Amsterdam and Bielefeld University, "Monetary Policy, Banking and Heterogeneous Agents"
2011-2012
This contest was held in conjunction with the 2012 conference in Prague.- Petr Sedláček, University of Amsterdam, Firm Age, Business Cycles and Aggregate Labor Market Dynamics
- Tae-Seok Jang and Stephen Sacht, University of Kiel, Identification of Animal Spirits in a Bounded Rationality Model: An Application to the Euro Area
- Charles Brendon, University of Oxford, Applying Perturbation Analysis to Dynamic Optimal Tax Problems
2010-2011
This contest was held in conjunction with the 2011 conference in San Francisco.- Joseph Vavra, Yale University, Inflation Dynamics and Time-Varying Uncertainty: New Evidence and an Ss Interpretation
- Damian R. Pierri, Ministry of Economy and Public Finance, University of Buenos Aires and University of San Andres, Theoretical Error Bounds for the Value and Policy Function Iteration Algorithms: An Application for Recursive Dynamic Models with Inequality Constraints
- Co-Pierre Georg, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, The Effect of the Interbank Network Structure on Contagion and Common Shocks
2009-2010
No award was made this year.2008-2009
This contest was held in conjunction with the July 2009 conference in Sydney.- Gaetano Gaballo, Università di Siena,
Endogenous Switching of Volatility Regimes:
Rational Expectations and Behavioral Sunspots
2007-2008
This contest was held in conjunction with the July 2008 conference in Paris.- Antonella Tutino, Princeton University, The Rigidity of Choice.
Life cycle savings with information-processing limits
- Francesco Bianchi, Bad Beta, Good Beta, and Rare Events
- Antonio Mele, Repeated Moral Hazard and Recursive Lagrangeans (tie)
2006-2007
This contest was held in conjunction with the June 2007 conference in Montreal.- Andriy Norets, University of Iowa, Inference in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Serially Correlated Unobserved State Variables
2005-2006
This contest was held in conjunction with the June 2006 conference in Limassol, Cyprus.- Pontus Rendahl, European University Institute, Inequality Constraints in Recursive Economies
- C. Bora Durdu, University of Maryland, Are Indexed Bonds a Remedy for Sudden Stops?
- Mauro Bambi, European University Institute, Endogenous Growth and Time to Build: the AK Case
2004-2005
This contest was held in conjunction with the June 2005 conference in Washington, D.C.- Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy, University of Virginia, Pricing American-style Derivatives under the Heston Model Dynamics: A Fast Fourier Transformation in the Geske-Johnson Scheme
- Roberto Billi, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, The Optimal Inflation Buffer with a Zero Bound on Nominal Interest Rates
- Che-Lin Su, Stanford University, A Sequential NCP Algorithm for Solving Equilibrium Problems with Equilibrium Constraints
2003-2004
This contest was held in conjunction with the July 2004 conference at the University of Amsterdam.- S. Boragan Aruoba, Univ. of Pennsylvania, "Data Uncertainty in General Equilibrium"
- S. van der Hoog, CeNDEF,University of Amsterdam, "Credit and Cash-in-Advance in Disequilibrium Models"
- J. Sadefo Kamdem, Univ. de Reims/Univ. d'Evry, "Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall for Quadratic Portfolio of Securities with Mixture of Elliptic Distribution Risk Factors"
2002-2003
This contest was held in conjunction with the July 2003 conference at the University of Washington. The Society is proud to announce the winners of this contest.- Fabrizio Laurini, University of Padova Evaluating the Extremal Index in GARCH Processes Through Double Random Walk"
- Patricia Langohr, Kellogg School of Management "Competitive Convergence and Divergence: Capability and Position Dynamics"
- Christoph Schleicher, University of British Columbia "Kolmogorov-Wiener Filters for Finite Time Series"
2001-2002
The Society is proud to announce the winners of the 2001-2002 contest. The winners received a total of €2,500.- Arpad Abraham "Wage Inequality and Education Policy with Skill-biased Technological Change in OG Setting," University Pompeu Fabra and London Business School
- Christopher A. Laincz "Market Structure and Endogenous Productivity Growth," Duke University
- Stuart McDonald and Rodney Beard "Numerical Simulation of the Term Structure of Interest Rates Using Random Fields" University of Queensland, Australia
2000-2001
The Society is proud to announce the winners of the 2000-2001 contest. Each author received a check for $1,000. They are:- Kwang Woo Park "Population Genetics and Economic Growth," Claremont Graduate University
- Toke Ward Petersen "General Equilibrium Tax Policy with Hyperbolic Consumers," University of Copenhagen
- Ted Turocy "Implications of Approximate Equilibrium Concepts in Sealed-Bid Auctions," Northwestern University
1999-2000
The Society is proud to announce the winners of the 1999-2000 contest. Each set of authors received a check for $1,000. They are:- Jim Engle-Warnick "Inferring Strategies from Observed Actions: A Nonparametric Binary Tree Classification Approach," University of Pittsburgh
- Nienke A. Oomes "Local Interactions and Global Persistence," University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Martin Ellison and Natacha Valla "Learning, Uncertainty and Central Bank Activism in an Economy with Strategic Interactions," European University Institute
1998-99
The Society is proud to announce the winners of the 1997-1998 contest. Each received a check for $1,000. They are:- David M. Drukker, "Neighborhood Effects Can Increase Inequality and Hurt Those at the Bottom," University of Texas
- M. Utku Unver "Backward Unraveling over Time: The Evolution of Strategic Behavior in the Entry-Level British Medical Labor Markets", University of Pittsburgh
1997-98
The Society is proud to announce the winners of the 1997-1998 contest. Each received a check for $1,000. They are:- Mustafa Babiker, "The CO2 Abatement Game: Cost, Incentives, and the Stability of a Sub-Global Coalition," University of Colorado at Boulder
- Spyros Skouras, "Financial Returns and Efficiency as seen by an Artificial Technical Analyst," European Investment Bank and European University Institute
- Sevin Yeltekin, "Dynamic Principal-Multiple Agent Contracts," Stanford University
1996-97
The Society, along with the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Geneva, is pleased to announce the winners of the 1996-1997 Graduate Student Paper Contest. Each winner received a check for $1,000. The winners are:- Nick Feltovich, "Equilibrium and Reinforcement Learning with Private Information: An Experimental Study," Univ. of Pittsburgh, now on the faculty of the Univ. of Houston
- Dietmar Leisen, "The Random-Time Binomial Model," Univ. of Bonn, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and CREST
- Gustavo Ventura, ""Flat Tax Reform: A Quantitative Exploration," University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, now on the faculty at the Univ. of Western Ontario