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  • Press Release
  • April 20, 2021

òòò½Íø Announces Award Recipients for 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Barbara H. Fiser
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NASHVILLE, TN (April 20, 2021) - The òòò½Íø (òòò½Íø) announces recipients of the John Bates Clark Medal, Distinguished Fellows, Foreign Honorary Members, and the Best Paper Awards of the òòò½Íø òòò½Íø. These outstanding achievements will be honored at the òòò½Íø Annual Meeting in January 2022.

Awarded annually to an economist under the age of 40, the John Bates Clark Medal recognizes outstanding research accomplishments in economics. The òòò½Íø Electoral College, consisting of the Association's Honors and Awards Committee and voting members of the Executive Committee, selects the winner.  A list of Clark Medal recipients is available at /about-aea/honors-awards/bates-clark.

The Distinguished Fellow awards recognize the lifetime research contributions of distinguished economists. Since 1965, past presidents of the òòò½Íø are recognized as Distinguished Fellows, and up to four additional individuals may be elected for the award in one calendar year. Distinguished Fellows are selected by the òòò½Íø Nominating Committee and voting members of the Executive Committee, sitting together as an electoral college. A list of current and past Distinguished Fellows is available at /about-aea/honors-awards/distinguished-fellows.

The Foreign Honorary Members award is presented to foreign economists of distinction. Honorees are elected by the òòò½Íø's Executive Committee upon recommendation from the Honors and Awards committee. A list of current Foreign Honorary Members is available at /about-aea/honors-awards/foreign-honorary-members.

The annual òòò½Íø Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Awards highlight the best paper published in each of the òòò½Íø òòò½Íø: Applied Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics over the last three years. Nominations are provided by òòò½Íø members, and winners are selected by the journals' editors, co-editors, and boards of editors. A list of current and past AEJ Best Paper Award winners is available at /about-aea/honors-awards/aej-best-papers.

A list of the 2021 award winners is provided below. For more information about these awards, the recipients, and biographies of the John Bates Clark Medalist and Distinguished Fellows, visit .


The òòò½Íø Awards Results


John Bates Clark Medalist


Isaiah Andrews, Harvard University


Distinguished Fellows

Alan Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley
Rebecca Blank, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Anne Case, Princeton University
Robert Townsend, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Foreign Honorary Members

Per Krusell, Sweden
Eliana La Ferrara, Italy
Lucrezia Reichlin, Italy
Manuel Trajtenberg, Israel


òòò½Íø Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Awards 
Complimentary full-text articles are available at the web addresses referenced below.

AEJ: Applied Economics: "Social Media and Corruption," by Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova, and Konstantin Sonin 10(1), (pp. 150-74) January 2018

AEJ: Economic Policy: "How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree," by Martin Watzinger, Thomas A. Fackler, Markus Nagler, and Monika Schnitzer 12(4), (pp. 328-59) November 2020

AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Deconstructing Monetary Policy Surprises – The Role of Information Shocks," by Marek JarociÅ„ski and Peter Karadi 12(2), (pp. 1-43) April 2020

AEJ: Microeconomics: "Who Benefits from Information Disclosure? The Case of Retail Gasoline," by Fernando Luco 11(2), (pp. 277-305) May 2019


About the òòò½Íø

The òòò½Íø (òòò½Íø) encourages economic research, issues publications on economic subjects, and encourages perfect freedom of economic discussion. With more than 20,000 members, the Association publishes the òòò½Íø Review (AER)AER: Insights (AERI)Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP)òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, and òòò½Íø òòò½Íø (AEJ): Applied Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics. More information can be found at , or by contacting Barbara H. Fiser at barbara.h.fiser@Vanderbilt.Edu.