Business, Government & the International Economy
Awards & Honors
Recent Awards
Louis T. Wells, Jr.'s Third World Multinationals (The MIT Press, 1983) was selected for a special commemorative panel at the 2008 European International Business Academy (EIBA) conference.
Matthew Weinzierl was selected for the twentieth annual Review of Economic Studies European Meetings in 2008. Each year, "seven of the most promising graduating doctoral students in economics and finance in the world are selected to present their research to audiences in Europe" by the Review. He presented his paper "The Surprising Power of Age-Dependent Taxes."
Aldo Musacchio won the 2008 Arthur H. Cole Prize for best paper in the Journal of Economic History for his paper "Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Lessons from the History of Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil" in Journal of Economic History (March 2008).
Laura Alfaro was selected as a Young Global Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum. The honor, bestowed annually, recognizes a group of 250 top leaders in business, government, academia, and the media--all below the age of 41--for "their professional accomplishments, their commitment to society, and their potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world."
Arthur Daemmrich received the 2006 Edward Kremers Award from the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy in recognition of Pharmacopolitics (The University of North Carolina Press, 2004) as the best book published in the previous two years.
Lakshmi Iyer, along with Abhijit Banerjee, was awarded the inaugural (2006) Michael Wallerstein Award by the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association for the paper "History, Institutions and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India." American Economic Review 95, no. 4 (September 2005). The award was established in honor of Michael Wallerstein, who passed away earlier this year, and is given to the best paper in Political Economy (broadly defined) published in the last calendar year.