By Scott Gehlbach
During SIOE's recent annual conference in Montreal (June 21-23), several awards were handed out. For each award, a committee of SIOE board members had been formed that reviewed submissions and competitively chose the winners.
The Douglass C. North Research...
By Bentley MacLeod
This year the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics calls for nominations for the 2018 Douglass North and 2018 Ronald Coase Awards.
The Douglass North Best Book Award For the best book in institutional and organizational economics published in...
Yoram Barzel (left) during the Award ceremony on 24 June, 2017, with SIOE President-Elect Bentley MacLeod (right).
By Bentley MacLeod
The SIOE Board voted to award the 2017 Elinor Ostrom Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor Yoram Barzel (University of Washington). Professor Barzel got his BA from Hebrew University in 1953, and MA in 1956. He moved to the University of Chicago where he got his PhD...
By Bentley MacLeod
Oliver E. Williamson Best Conference Paper Award
The finalists for the 2017 Williamsom Award were:
" Competing for Relationships: Markets and Informal Institutions in Sierra Leone ," by Tarek Ghani (WUSTL) and Tristen Reed (World Bank) “ Common Ownership...By Sergei Guriev
Every year, the Society awards the Oliver E. Williamson Best Conference Paper Award to the best paper presented in the SIOE’s Annual Conference. The paper is chosen by an Award Committee made of several members of the conference’s Program Committee and is chaired by the...
By Henry E. Smith
This year’s Douglass C. North Research Award was presented at the annual meeting at Sciences Po in Paris to Josiah Ober of Stanford University for The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (Princeton University Press, 2015).
The book shows that, contrary to...
By Jens Prüfer
The calls for nominations for the 2016 Douglass C. North and 2016 Ronald Coase Awards are now open.
The Douglass C. North Research Award will be awarded for the best paper or book in institutional and organizational economics published in the calendar years 2014...