We overall received 96 papers and in light of the uniformly very high quality of the best ten papers of this contest, the Commission has unanimously decided to expand the set of this year's prizes from FIVE to TEN.
Accordingly, the 10 winners are (in alphabetical order):
Eduard Boehm - Intermediation, Choice Frictions, and Selection: Evidence from the Chilean Pension Market
Arnoud Dyevre - Public R&D and Productivity Growth
Lukas Freund - Superstar Teams: The Micro Origins and Macro Implications of Coworker Complementarities
Guangbin Hong - Two-Sided Sorting of Workers and Firms: Implications for Spatial Inequality and Welfare
Vatsal Khandelwal - Silent Networks: The Role of Inaccurate Beliefs in Reducing Useful Social Interactions
Lukas Mann - Spatial Sorting and the Rise of Geographic Inequality
Hugo Reichardt - Scale-Biased Technical Change and Inequality
Taisiya Sikorskaya - Institutional Investors, Securities Lending, and Short-Selling Constraints
Jinglun Yao - Knowledge is (Market) Power
Chuan Yu - The Welfare Effects of Sponsored Product Advertising
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