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...
By Nan Jia
The Ronald H. Coase Best Dissertation Award is handed out annualy for the best doctoral dissertation in institutional and organizational economics. During SIOE's recent conference in Montreal (June 21-23), Nicholas Barnes was awarded the award for his dissertation “Monopolies...
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...By Orie Shelef
Risk taking is central to economic growth, entrepreneurship, and innovation, yet poor risk taking can have drastic consequences. Much of the research on risk-taking incentives has focused on balancing risk-reward trade-offs, while classic research on incentives has...