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The Award aims to honour the best published paper in a refereed journal on a topic related to the Leading House VPET-ECON. 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 for the award are all papers published in a journal1 in 2022 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 of PhD-students admitted to the Leading House Course Programme and presenting in the Friday Lunch Talk on VPET Economics are also eligible. Eligible papers must have been published in the Leading House Working Paper Series until one year after employment at one of the Leading House chairs has ended, or for external PhD-students until one year after the Course Programme or PhD is finished.
The jury awarding the Leading House Best Paper Awards consists of the members of the Advisory Board of the Leading House.
We congratulate the winner of the Leading House Best Paper Award 2022, Christian Eggenberger, for his paper The value of specific skills under shock: High risks and high returns (co-authored with Simon Janssen and Uschi Backes-Gellner), published in Labour Economics in 2022.
The runner-up prizes 2022 are awarded to Noémi Péter for her paper Willingness to compete, gender and career choices along the whole ability distribution (co-authored with Thomas Buser and Stefan C. Wolter), published in Experimental Economics in 2022...
...and to Tobias Schlegel and Curdin Pfister for their paper Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development (co-authored with Uschi Backes-Gellner), published in Regional Studies in 2022.
Best Paper Award Ceremony 2022
We congratulate the winners of the Leading House Best Paper Award 2021, Curdin Pfister and Miriam Koomen, for their paper “Regional innovation effects of applied research institutions" (co-authored with Dietmar Harhoff and Uschi Backes-Gellner), published in Research Policy in 2021.
The runner-up prizes 2021 are awarded to Filippo Pusterla for his paper “Is technological change really skills-biased? Firm-level evidence of the complementarities between ICT and workers' education” (co-authored with Thomas Bolli), published in Economics of Innovation and New Technology in 2021...
...and to Tobias Schlegel and Curdin Pfister for their paper “Innovation effects of universities of applied sciences: an assessment of regional heterogeneity” (co-authored with Dietmar Harhoff and Uschi Backes-Gellner), published in The Journal of Technology Transfer in 2021.
Best Paper Award Ceremony 2021
We congratulate the winner of the Leading House Best Paper Award 2020, Maria Zumbühl, for her paper “Parental involvement and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences, attitudes and personality traits" (co-authored with Thomas Dohmen and Gerard Pfann), published in The Economic Journal in 2020.
The runner-up prizes 2020 are awarded to Patrick Lehnert for his paper “Employment of R&D personnel after an educational supply shock: Effects of the introduction of Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland” (co-authored with Curdin Pfister and Uschi Backes-Gellner), published in Labour Economics in 2020...
...and to Damiano Pregaldini for his paper “Girls' preferences for STEM and the effects of classroom gender composition: New evidence from a natural experiment” (co-authored with Uschi Backes-Gellner and Gerald Eisenkopf), published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization in 2020.
2022
Winner: Christian Eggenberger
Runner-up: Noémi Péter, Tobias Schlegel and Curdin Pfister
2021
Winner: Curdin Pfister and Miriam Koomen
Runner-up: Filippo Pusterla, Tobias Schlegel and Curdin Pfister
2020
Winner: Maria Zumbühl
Runner-up: Patrick Lehnert, Damiano Pregaldini
2019
Winner: Insa Weilage
Runner-up: Miriam Rinawi
2018
Winner: Jens Mohrenweiser
Runner-up: Aurélien Abrassart , Mirjam Strupler Leiser
2017
Winner: Simone Balestra, Christian Eggenberger and Miriam Rinawi, Noemi Peter
2016
Winner: Samuel Mühlemann
Runner-up: Simone Balestra, Katherine Caves and Simone Balestra
2015
Winner: Samuel Mühlemann
Runner-up: Johannes Meuer and Christian Rupietta, Simon Janssen and Simone Tuor Sartore
2014
Winner: Yvonne Oswald
Runner-up: Johannes Kunz, Samuel Mühlemann
2013
Winner: Samuel Mühlemann
Runner-up: Simon Janssen
2012
Winner: Dolores Messer
Runner-up: Regula Geel, Samuel Mühlemann
2011
Winner: Samuel Mühlemann
Runner-up: Katja Görlitz, Samuel Mühlemann, Jürg Schweri
2010
Winner: Katja Görlitz
Runner-up: Simone N. Tuor Sartore, Samuel Mühlemann and Harald Pfeifer and Günter Walden and Felix Wenzelmann
2009
Winner: Jens Mohrenweiser and Prof. Dr. Thomas Zwick
Runner-up: Stefan Denzler, Maria Cattaneo
2008
Winner: Thomas Zwick and Thomas Hempell
Runner-up: Dr. Stephan Veen
