Reinhard Selten Award Winner 2025: Kai Fischer (DICE) and Honghao Zheng (KU Leuven) for their paper “Demand (Un)certainty and Productivity: Evidence from the German Coal Mining Industry“. The prize was awarded…
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Call for proposals The Gustav Stolper Prize is awarded to outstanding economists who have employed the findings of economic research to influence the public debate on economic issues and problems, and have made…
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