Young Economist Award

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

2024

Patrick Bigler and Benedikt Janzen for the paper “Green spills: Peer effects in pro-environmental behaviors” presented at the 2024 Annual Congress at the University of Lucerne.

2023

Véra Zabrodina for the paper “Timing Moral Hazard under Deductibles in Health Insurance” presented at the 2023 Annual Congress at the University of Neuchâtel.

2022

Ulrike Unterhofer for the paper “Peer Effects in Active Labour Market Policies” presented at the 2022 Annual Congress at the University of Fribourg.

2021

Kumar Rishabh and Jorma Schäublin for the paper “Fintech Lending and Sales Manipulation”, presented at the 2021 Annual Congress at the University of Zurich (online).

2019

Katharina Erhardt for the paper “Born to be an entrepreneur? How cultural origin affects entrepreneurship” presented at the 2019 Annual Congress at the University of Geneva.

2018

Andrea Camilli  and to Helge Liebert and Beatrice Mäder for the papers “Labor market institutions and homeownership” and “Health care supply and infant mortality: Semiparametric evidence from Germany, 1928-1936”, respectively, presented at the 2018 Annual Congress at the University of St. Gallen.

2017

Liu Liu for the paper “How Nations Evolve: Political Accountability and Developmental Trajectories” presented at the 2017 Annual Congress at the University of Lausanne.

2016

Ulrich Matter and Michaela Slotwinski for the paper “Precise Control over Legislative Vote Outcomes: A Forensic Approach to Political Economics” presented at the 2016 Annual Congress at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano.

2015

Esther Mirjam Girsberger for the paper “Migration, Education and Work Opportunities” presented at the 2015 Annual Congress at the University of Basel.

2014

Lukas Schmid and Stefan Legge for the paper “Rankings, Random Successes, and Individual Performance” presented at the 2014 Annual Congress at the University of Bern.

2013

Timo Boppart and Franziska J. Weiss and to Nicolas Berman and Mathieu Couttenier for the papers “Non-homothetic preferences and industry directed technical change” and “External shocks, internal shots – the geography of civil conflicts” respectively, presented at the 2013 Annual Congress at the University of Neuchâtel.

2012

Baptiste Massenot and Kenza Benhima for the paper “for the paper «Safety Traps»” presented at the 2012 Annual Congress at the University of Zurich.

2011

Carlo Strub and Andrew Clausen for the paper “Envelope Theorems for Non-Smooth and Non-Concave Optimization” presented at the 2011 Annual Congress at the University of Zurich.

2010

Alexander Tarasov and to Timo Boppart for the papers “Per Capita Income, Market Access Costs, and Trade Volumes” and “Engel’s law and growth and directed technical change”, respectively, presented at the 2010 Annual Congress at the University of Fribourg.

2009

Benjamin Jung and to Sarah Lein and Eva Köberl for the papers “On the Importance of Adjustment Dynamics for Bilateral Trade Flows” and “Capacity Utilisation, Constraints and price Adjustments under the Microscope”, respectively, presented at the 2009 Annual Congress at the University of Geneva.

2008

Conny Wunsch for the paper “Optimal use of labour market policies” presented at the 2009 Annual Congress at the University of Lausanne.

2007

Enrico De Giorgi and Francesco Audrino and to Manuel Oechslin for the papers “Beta Regimes for the Yield Curve” and “Foreign Aid, Political Instability, and Economic Growth”, respectively, presented at the 2007 Annual Congress at the University of St. Gallen.