Leading House Best Publication Award
The Award
The Award aims to honour the best published paper of Leading House researchers in a refereed journal. One or two additional prizes are awarded as runner-up prizes. The reputation of the journal is considered as one of the main factors for awarding the prize.
Eligible are all papers published in the year of the Award (e.g. date of print has to be 2008 for the Award 2008) that are authored or co-authored by a person working in the Leading House or at one of the two chairs of the Leading House Directors. Additionally, papers written in the context of the external projects of the Leading House as well as papers of PhD-students officially admitted to the Leading House Course Programme for Doctoral Students in Economics of Education are also eligible.
The Award 2008 was assiged by an international jury consisting of the Leading House Advisory Board members Proff. Ludger Wössmann (chairman), Steve Machin, Paul Ryan and Catherine Sofer.
The new award will be announced here at the beginning of 2010.
The Winners
2008
We congratulate the winners of the Leading House Best Publication
Award 2008
Prof. Dr. Thomas Zwick and Dr. Thomas Hempell for their paper
"New Technology, Work Organisation, and Innovation" published in Economics of Innovation and New Technology 2008.
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The runner-up prize 2008 is awarded to Dr. Stephan Veen for his paper "The consequences of central examinations on educational quality standards and labour market outcomes" published in Oxford Review of Education 2008. Congratulations!
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