About
- Departmental Recognition Awards
Graduate Departmental Awards and Recognition
Benjamin C. Horne Memorial Prize
The Benjamin C. Horne Memorial Prize is an endowed fund that generates an annual payout which is awarded each year to graduate students in Economics at UC San Diego whose research has potential to advance causes that were dear to our friend Ben: peace, international cooperation, development, and environmental protection.
2023-24 Recipient
- Erica Chuang
Clive Granger Research Fellowship
Six fellowships, named after Nobel Prize winner Clive Granger, are awarded each year for the most promising graduate student research. The fellowship carries a small stipend and allows the student to make more rapid dissertation progress by minimizing work obligations for a quarter. Nominations are made by the faculty running the thesis workshops (in consultation with their colleagues) and awards are made by the Graduate Committee.
2023-24 Recipients
- Francesco Amodeo
- Paula Donaldson
- Giampaolo Bonomi
- Steven Brownstone
- Yashna Nandan
Graduate Student Research Seminars (GSRS)
This award is targeted at encouraging the presentation of research projects at all stages of development; but ideally those which have not yet been presented. Projects do not need to be complete or submission-ready to be presented. In fact, presenting them early on is a great way to get the feedback you need early to keep the project on-track. Awardee is selected by a committee of peers.
2023-24 Recipient
- Vedant Vohra, “Inference in the Absence of Microdata with an Application to Policy Cost-Effectiveness”
TA Excellence Award
The Department annually recognizes graduate students for TA Excellence. These awards are intended as a tangible form of thanks to TA's who demonstrate great efforts as well as glowing teaching evaluations from both the undergraduates, graduates and their faculty supervisor. Nominations are solicited from the faculty and awards are made by the Graduate Committee. Awards are given out at the Fall departmental party.
2023-24 Recipients
- Erica Chuang
- Kelvin Leong
- Jacob Morris
- Yashna Nandan
- John Juneau
- Vafa Behnam Roudsari
Walter Heller Memorial Prize (Best 3rd Year Paper)
The Department awards the Walter Heller Memorial Prize to the graduate student(s) with the best 3rd year paper. Given in memory of Walter Heller, this award serves to provide a concrete form of recognition to graduate students who are getting off to the best start on their research career. Nominations are solicited from the faculty teaching the final quarter of the third-year paper sequence. Awards are given out at the Fall departmental party.
2023-24 Recipients
- Vedant Vohra, “Hypothesis Testing in the Absence of Microdata”
- Torsha Chakravorty, “Brokers in Public Service Delivery”
History of Award Recipients
Benjamin C. Horne Prize
2022-23
- Andre Gray
2021-22
- Kevin Winseck
2020-21
- Anastasiia Faikina
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
Clive Ranger Research Fellowship
2022-23
- Tanner Eastmond
- Sabareesh Ramachandran
- Hannah Bae
- Songyu He
2021-22
- Stefan Faridani
- Wanchang Zhang
- Minki Kim
- Katherine Rittenhouse
- Parker Rogers
- Jin Xi
2020-21
- Mitch Van Vuren
- Nikolay Kudrin
- Jianan Yang
- Rebecca Royer
- Jackson Somers
- Danil Dmitriev
2019-20
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Masha Titova
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Sophie Sheng
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Camila Navajas
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Xiao Ma
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Alejandro Nakab
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Davide VIviano & Haitian Xie
2018-19
- Nobuhiko Nakazawa
- Jonathan Leganza
- Anastasiia Faikina
- Daniela Vidart
- Chu (Alex) Yu
- Julian Martinez-Iriarte
2017-18
- Xuejing(Shirley) Lu
- Samuel Krumholz
- Peicong Hu
- Bruno Lopez-Videla
- Lam Nguyen
- Runjing Lu
2016-17
- Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant
- Seung-Keun Martinez
- Mauricio Romero
- Zhenting Sum
- Fanglin Sun
- Desmond Ang
2015-16
- Roy Allen
- Mitch Downey
- Ce Liu
- Shihan Xie
2014-15
- Richard Brady
- Zachary Breig
- Leland Farmer
- Claudio Labanca
- Arman Rezaee
- Jeffrey Shrader
2013-14
- Qihui Chen
- Matt Gibson
- Matt Goldman
- John Rehbeck
- Nels Lind
- Tamara Sheldon
2012-13
- Denise Clayton
- Zheng Fang
- Michael Kuhn
- Myungkyu Shim
- Igor Vaynman
- Fan "Dora" Xia
2011-12
- Hie Joo Ahn
- Dallas Dotter
- Stephie Fried
- David Kaplan
- Lindsay Rickey
- Larry Schmidt
2010-11
- Samuel Bazzi
- Aislinn Bohren
- Kristy Buzard
- Soojin Jo
- Antung Liu
- Matthew Niedzwiecki
2009-10
- Ben Backes
- Ben Gilbert
- Minseong Kim
- Leah Nelson
- Charles Sprenger
- Jing Wu
Graduate Student Research Seminars (GSRS)
2022-23
- Sabareesh Ramachandran, "Targeting in in-kind programs: A study of housing subsidies"
2021-22
- Frances Lu, "Land concentration, structural transformation, and rural labor market"
2020-2021
- Pietro Spini
- Radhika Goyal
2019-2020
- Rahdika Goyal
2018-2019
- Alyssa Brown
2017-18
- Bruno Lopez Videla
- Fanglin Sun
2016-17
- Ying Feng
2015-16
- Nels Lind
- Claudio Labanca
2014-15
- Erin Wolcott
2013-14
- Kilian Heilmann, "The Effectiveness of International Trade Boycotts"
2012-13
- Matthew Goldman, "Live by the Three, Die by the Three?"
2011-12
- Samuel Bazzi, "Liquidity Constraints and Investment in International Migration: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia"
TA Excellence
2022-23
- Angela Gu
- Churn Ken Lee
- Steven Yee
- Tanner Eastmond
- Karna Malaviya
- Min Surk Lee
- Xintong Li
2021-22
- Ali Uppal
- Edoardo Briganti
- Jay Cizeski
- Jin Xi
- Min Surk Lee
- Xintong Li
2020-21
- Ishani Chatterjee
- Kevine Lee Winseck
- MinSurk Lee
- Connor Redpath
- Evgenii Baranov
- Weilin Chen
- Ziqi Chen
- Aleksandr Levkun
- Ariel Tsai Chiang
- Michael Rogelio Chua
- Chen lin
- Sidney Corey Tate
- Sarah Zeng
- Sabareesh Ramachandran
- Danil Dmitriev
- Camila Eugenia Navajas Ahumada
- Jianian Yang
- Tara Sullivan
- Zachary Goodman
- Linyan Zhu
- Olga Denislamova
- Pietro Spini
- Weilin Chen
- Aleksandr Levkun
- Sarah Zeng
- Daniela Vidart
- Jacob Orchard
- Kevin Ray
- Pietro Spini
- Veena Jevanandam Blume
- Runjing Lu
- Chelsea Swete
- Yang Wang
- Alex Mascusi
- Fanglin Sun
- Claudio Labanca - STATA Lab
- Zheng Huang
- Veena Jeevanandam Blume
- Grant Johnson
- Vincent Leah-Martin
- Pablo Ruiz-Junco
- Shihan Xie
- Claudio Labanca - STATA Lab
- Nels Lind
- David Coyne
- Richard Brady
- Vincent Leah-Martin
- Bong Hwan Kim
- Grant Johnson
- Brigitte Roth Tran
- William Chi Chiao Leung
- Claudio Labanca
- Vincent Leah-Martin
- Andrew Chamberlain
- Marina Kutyavina
- Andrew Walcher
- Oleksiy Mnyshenko
- David Coyne
- Andrew Chamberlain
- Michael Levy
- Benjamin Miller
- Andrew Brownback
- Michael Kuhn
- Igor Vaynman
- Andrew Chamberlain
- Jong Myun Moon
- Shalini Nageswaran
- Matthew Niedzwiecki
- Tamara Sheldon
- Igor Vaynman
- Andrew Chamberlain
- Matthew Goldman
- Charles Lin
- Matthew Niedzwiecki
- Lawrence Schmidt (Undergraduate & Graduate Core)
- Fan (Dora) Xia
- Myungkyu Shim
- Jong Myun Moon
- Charles Lin
- Kevin Novan
- Kristy Buzard
- Nicholas Turner
- Jing Chen (Undergraduate Tutor)
- Ben Backes (Grad Course)
- Charles Lin
- Aren Megerdichian
- Bryan Tomlin
- Aaron Schroeder
- Jaime Thomas
- Li Zhou
- Aislinn Bohren (Grad Course)
- Scott Borger
- Hiroaki Kaido (Grad Course)
- Timothy Keller
- Charles Lin
- Charles Sprenger
- Andra Chent
- Oana Tocoian
- Marya Gottlieb
- Philip Neary
- Ricardo Serrano-Padial
- Scott Borger
- Lone Christiansen
- Michael Ewens
- Cory Koedel
- Seth Pruitt
- Andra Ghent
- Greg Scott
Walter Heller Memorial Prize
2022-23- Jordan Mosqueda Juarez, "Private Transportation Markets and Endogenous Commuting Costs"
- Yuli Xu, "Liberalization to Inequality: How China’s State-Owned Enterprise Reform Restructures the Urban Labor Market"
2021-22
- Anjali Pai, "Bridging the Information Gap in Undergraduate Economics"
- Ali Uppal, "The Leverage Puzzle of Monetary Policy"
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