Epainos Prize

Epainos Prize Winners

2009

Epainos 09 winners

  • Theresa Grafeneder-Weissteiner and Klaus Prettner (1st) - Agglomeration and demographic change
  • Patricia Melo (2nd) - Agglomeration economics and labour productivity: evidence from longitudinal worker level data for GB Travel-to-Work areas
  • Guilherme Mendes Resende (2nd) - Multiple dimensions of regional economic growth: the Brazilian case 1991-2000

    Epainos 2009 Award speech
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Epainos 2009 winner’s paper

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2008

  • Carlo Menon (1st) - The Bright Side of Gerrymandering: an Enquiry on the Determinants of Industrial Agglomeration in the United States
  • Eveline van Leeuwen (1st) - The Effects of Future Retail Developments on the Local Economy; Combining Micro and Macro Approaches
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Epainos 2008 Award speech

For more information on the Jury’s selection, consult the Epainos 2008 award speech.

2007

  • Piyapong Jiwattanakulpaisarn (1st) - Granger Causality and Spatial Spillover Effects of Highway Infrastructure on Regional Economic Development: Evidence from an Application of Spatial Filtering in a Panel Vector Autoregressive Framework
  • Roberto Picchizzolu (1st) - Entrepreneurial Risk and the Geographical Concentration of Industries: Evidence from the UK Manufacturing Sector

2006

  • Jens Suedekum (1st) - Human Capital Externalities and Growth of High- and Low-Skilled Jobs
  • Jörg Heining and Jörg Lingens (2nd) - Social Interaction in Regional Labour Markets

2005

  • Matteo Lanzafame (1st) - Economic Structure, Technology Diffusion and Convergence: The Case of the Italian Regions
  • Julie Le Gallo and Sandy Dall’erba (2nd) - Spatial and Sectoral Productivity Convergence Between European Regions, 1975-2000

2004

  • Nicola Coniglio (1st) - Migropolis: Migration Networks and Formation of Ethnic Clusters in Cities
  • Sjoerd Beugelsdijk (2nd) - Entrepreneurial Culture, Regional Innovativeness and Economic Growth
  • Rachel Guillain Rachel and Julie Le Gallo and Céline Boiteux-Orain (2nd) - The Evolution of The Spatial and Sectoral Patterns in Ile-de-France Over 1978-1997
  • Stephane Hess (2nd) - An Analysis of Airport-Choice Behaviour Using the Mixed Multinomial Logit Model

2003

  • Jaakko Simonen (1st) - Regional Externalities in the Dynamic System of Three Regions
  • Jens Suedekum (2nd) - Increasing Returns and Spatial Unemployment Disparities
  • Nicola Coniglio and Francesco Prota (2nd) - Human Capital Accumulation and Migration in a Peripheral EU Region: the Case of Basilicata

2002

  • Adelheid Holl (1st) - Transport as a Location Factor: New Start-Ups and Relocations in Portugal
  • Claudia Stirboeck (1st) - Relative Investment Specialisation inside EU: An Econometric Analysis for EU-Regions
  • Elke Amend and Patrick Herbst (1st) - Human Capital Formation under Product Market Uncertainty

2001

  • Krister Sandberg and Jorgen Johansson (1st) - Estimation of Hedonic Prices for Co-operative Flats in the City of Umeå with Spatial Autoregressive GMM
  • Mika Haapanen (1st) - Labour Market Performance and Determinants of Migration by Gender and Region of Origin
  • Eduardo Haddad and Fernando Perobelli (2nd) - Regional Absorption of Terms of Trade Shocks

2000

  • Thomas de Graaff (1st) - Estimating the Effect of Labor Market Absorption of Ethnic Minorities
  • Sari Pekkala (1st) - Migration in a Core-Periphery Model: Analysis of Agglomeration in Regional Growth Centres

1999

  • None

1998

  • Aki Kangasharju - Regional Variations in Firm Formation: Panel and Cross-Sectional Data Evidence From Finland

1997

  • Stefano Magrini (1st) - On the Effect of European Integration on Economic Growth and Regional Disparities
  • Juan José Lucio (2nd) - Urbanization and Growth

1996

  • Erik Verhoef - The Implementation of Marginal External Cost Pricing in Road Transport