Coase Award winner Virginia Minni with SIOE President-Elect Scott Gehlbach (left) and Board member Jared Rubin (right)
By Emily Sellars (Chair) and Jared Rubin, on behalf of a committee that also included Talia Gillis and Nathan Nunn
We received nine excellent submissions from different institutions, disciplines, and methodological perspectives. It was not an easy job, and there were at least 5 or 6...
By the committee: Mariana Mota Prado (Chair, Toronto), Nathan Nunn (British Columbia), Emily Sellars (Yale), and Catherine Thomas (LSE)
The Ronald H. Coase Best Dissertation Award Committee was extremely impressed with the contributions to the literature, the quality of the research and...
By Giorgio Zanarone
The Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics awards prizes in institutional and organizational economics, named after the four Nobel Prize winners closely linked to the society. The awards are as follows.
A Ronald Coase Best Dissertation Award (...
Coase Award Winner 2021 Dmitrii Kofanov
By Federica Carugati
Committee members: Federica Carugati (King’s College London); Florian Englmaier (University of Munich); Michael Powell (Northwestern University); and Brian Silverman (University of Toronto).
Choosing a winner was, unoriginally but quite truthfully, not an...
By Giorgio Zanarone
The Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics awards prizes in institutional and organizational economics, named after the four Nobel Prize winners closely linked to our society. The awards are
A Ronald Coase Best Dissertation Award (annual). An...By Andrea Prat
I have had the honor of chairing the 2020 Ronald H. Coase Dissertation Award committee. I am very grateful to my fellow committee members: Rocco Macchiavello (London School of Economics), Petra Moser (New York University), and Brian Silverman (University of Toronto)....
By Sara Lowes*
My dissertation explores the origins and consequences of variation in culture and institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. The first paper is described here.
The second paper in the dissertation (with Eduardo Montero), “The Legacy of Colonial Medical Campaigns”,...
By Giorgio Zanarone
The Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics awards prizes in institutional and organizational economics, named after four Nobel Prize winners closely linked to our society. The awards are
• A Ronald Coase Best Dissertation Award (annual). • An...
By Sara Lowes*
My dissertation explores the origins and consequences of variation in culture and institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. The first paper, “Matrilineal Kinship and Spousal Cooperation: Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt,” asks how the structure of kinship systems affects...
Sara Lowes receiving the Ronald Coase Award 2019 from SIOE's President-Elect Tore Ellingsen and President Francine Lafontaine
By Pauline Grosjean
I had the pleasure of chairing the 2019 Ronald H. Coase Dissertation Award committee. My deepest thanks to my fellow committee members: Renee Adams (our committee member) (Oxford), Andrea Prat (Columbia), and Stephane Saussier (Sorbonne).
What a great vintage...