Graduate Departmental Awards Archive

Walter Heller Memorial Prize

2020-21

• Tjeerd de Vries, "Quantile Approach to Asset Pricing Models"
• Victor Sellemi, "Asset Pricing with Supply-Chain Risk"

2019-20

• David Viviano, 1st place, "Experimental Design under Network Interference"
• Shunsuke Hori, Runner-Up, "The Secular Decline in Aggregate Hours Worked in Japan: A Reinterpretation"

2018-19

• Alyssa Brown,  tied, "Who Responds to a Free Lunch? Food Spending and the Summer Food Service Program"
• Anastasiia Faikina, tied, "Watching the State: Can New Technologies Promote (a Sense of) Democracy?"

2017-18

• Daniel Leff Yaffe, 1st place, "The interstate multiplier"
• Alejandro Nakab, Runner-Up, "Fear of depreciation: Populist policies of income redistribution"

2016-17

• Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant, 1st prize, "Labor turnover, income risk and inequality"
• Chelsea Swete, Runner-Up, "Homophobia and the gay-straight wage gap"

2015-16

• Shihan Xie, tied, "The Transmission of Monetary Policy Through Local Housing Markets"
• Yanjun (Penny) Liao, tied, "Projection Bias in the Decision to Go Solar: Evidence on Costly Cancellations"

2014-15

• Mitch Downey, 1st prize, "Partial Automation:  Routine-Based Technical Change, Deskilling, and the Minimum Wage"
• Zachary Breig, Runner-Up, "Dynamic Delegation"

2013-14

• Qihui Chen, 1st prize, "Partially Linear IV Regression with Partial Identification"
• Shanthi Manian, Runner-Up, "Conflict and HIV Risk: The Impact of Mexico's Drug War"

2012-13

• Zheng Fang, 1st prize (tie), "Restore Bootstrap Consistency with Non-smooth Functionals"
• Igor Vaynman, 1st prize (tie), "Asymptotics of the Variance Targeting Estimator for (GARCH (p, q)) Process with Infinite Kurtosis"
• Jamie Mullins, Runner-Up, "Curves and Thresholds in Firm Emissions Reductions"

2011-12

• Larry Schmidt, Ist Prize, "Flexible Modeling of Conditional Quantiles without Crossing"
• Fan "Dora" Xia, Runner-Up, "Estimating Expected Bond Yields: Restriction by Factor Construction"
• Alex Imas, Runner-Up, "On Prosocial Incentives"

2010-11

• Samuel Bazzi, 1st Prize, "Income Shocks, Credit Constraints, and Barriers to International Migration: Evidence From Indonesia."
• Kelly Paulson, Runner-Up,"Using Conditional Exogeneity to Identify the Dynamic Binary Choice Model."

2009-10

• Laura Gee, 1st Prize, "Governing Ourselves: Does Third Party Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment?"
• Kristy Buzard, Honorable Mention, "Contract, Renegotiation, and Hold Up: Results on the Technology of Trade and Investment"
• Charles Lin, Honorable Mention, "Why People Vote: Ethical Motives and Social Incentives"

2008-09

• Aislinn Bohren, 1st Prize (tie), "Information - Processing Uncertainty in Social Learning"
• Doungdao Mahakitsiri, 1st Prize (tie), "Endogenous Free Trade Agreements: An Impact on the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade"

2007-08

• Hiroaki Kaido, 1st Prize, "Inference on Risk Neutral Measures for Incomplete Markets"
• Xun Lu, Honorable Mention, "Granger Causality and Dynamic Structural Systems"
• Aren Megerdichian, Honorable Mention, "Econometric Identification of Causal Parameters in Demand Systems"
• Alberto Rossi, Honorable Mention, "Forecasting the Equity Premium Using Boosted Regression Trees"

2006-07

• Scott Borger, 1st Prize (tie), "Real Time Monetary Policy Rules: Estimating Taylor Rule Parameters with High-Frequency Data"
• Ben Gillen, 1st Prize (tie), "A Note Extending Simple Solutions for Portfolio Identification"
• Bryan Tomlin, Honorable Mention, Untitled

2005-06

• Gray Calhoun
• Andra Ghent
• Elisa Hovander
• Meng Huang

2004-05

• Karim Chalak
• Lone Christiansen
• Dong Jin Lee

2003-04

• Tolga Cenesizoglu
• Jennifer Poole

2011-12

• Samuel Bazzi, "Liquidity Constraints and Investment in International Migration: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia"

Benjamin C. Horne Prize

2018-19

• Wesley Howden

2017-18

• Yanjun (Penny) Liao

2016-17

• Samuel Krumholz

2015-16

• Jeffrey Shrader

2014-15

• Mauricio Romero

2013-14

• Jamie Mullins

2012-13

• Stephie Fried