The Austin Robinson Memorial Prize - Royal Economic Society

The Royal Economic Society Prize
The Royal Economic Society introduced this prize in 1990, the year of the
Centenary Volume, and awarded it to the author of the best non-solicited
paper published in The Economic Journal over the two-year period 1988-89.
This format for the prize continued until 1996 when the prize became annual
and the money was increased to £3000. A small committee consisting of the RES
President, a representative of The Economic Journal editorial board and one
member of the Society Council appointed by them, awards the prize in the year
following publication.
The 2011 RES Prize for the best non-solicited paper published in The Economic
Journal has been awarded to Loukas Karabarbounis of the University of Chicago
for his paper, ‘One Dollar, One Vote’, vol 121, p621.
The next Royal Economic Society Prize of £3,000 will be for the best paper in
The Economic Journal for the year 2012. A list of previous awards can be found
on the RES website
http://www.res.org.uk/view/RESprizeEconomic.html
The Austin Robinson Memorial Prize
This annual prize of £2000 was launched in 2007 and is awarded for the best
non-solicited paper published in The Economic Journal by an author who is
within five years of completing their PhD. The winner is chosen by the current
Economic Journal editors.
The 2011 Austin Robinson Prize for the best non-solicited paper published in The
Economic Journal has been awarded to Guy Michaels of the LSE for his paper
‘The Long Term Consequences of Resource-Based Specialisation’, vol 121, p31.
The next Austin Robinson Memorial Prize of £2,000 will be for the best paper
published in The Economic Journal by an author within five years of completing
their PhD for the year 2012 A list of previous awards can be found on
the RES website
http://www.res.org.uk/view/austinrobinsonprizeEconomic.html
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