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Econ JM Best Paper Award 2025 - Announcement of Winners

Target
Students and researchers
Date
24 November 2025
Type
News

It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners of the 2025 Econ JM Best Paper Award.

 

This year we received more than 140 applications, all of exceptionally high quality. The impressive standard of the submissions made the work of the Evaluation Committee both deeply rewarding and extremely challenging. In light of the outstanding quality of the papers and the very close scores among the top candidates, it was decided to extend the number of awards from 5 to 8 for this year’s edition.

We are therefore delighted to award the 2025 Econ JM Best Paper Award to:

 

Econ JM Best Paper Award 2025 – Winners

  • Anton Heil - Occupational Variety and Economic Development

  • Elena Pellegrini - Wealth Inequality and Labor Mobility: The Job Trap

  • Giovanni Bonfanti - A European safe asset? Not without the investors

  • Johannes Matt - Financial Regulation, Pension Investment, and Economic Growth

  • Lukas Wiedemann - The Dual Role of Inequality for Structural Change: Cause and Consequence

  • Matteo Ruzzante - Price Regulation and the Adoption–Innovation Trade-off

  • Mohamad Adhami - Quantifying Knowledge Spillovers Using Firm and Product Dynamics

  • Sevin Kaytan - The Long-term Effects of After-school Care

We warmly congratulate all awardees for their remarkable work and extend our sincere appreciation to all applicants, whose research and commitment contribute greatly to the vitality and excellence of our community.

It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners of the 2025 Econ JM Best Paper Award.

 

This year we received more than 140 applications, all of exceptionally high quality. The impressive standard of the submissions made the work of the Evaluation Committee both deeply rewarding and extremely challenging. In light of the outstanding quality of the papers and the very close scores among the top candidates, it was decided to extend the number of awards from 5 to 8 for this year’s edition.

We are therefore delighted to award the 2025 Econ JM Best Paper Award to:

 

Econ JM Best Paper Award 2025 – Winners

  • Anton Heil - Occupational Variety and Economic Development

  • Elena Pellegrini - Wealth Inequality and Labor Mobility: The Job Trap

  • Giovanni Bonfanti - A European safe asset? Not without the investors

  • Johannes Matt - Financial Regulation, Pension Investment, and Economic Growth

  • Lukas Wiedemann - The Dual Role of Inequality for Structural Change: Cause and Consequence

  • Matteo Ruzzante - Price Regulation and the Adoption–Innovation Trade-off

  • Mohamad Adhami - Quantifying Knowledge Spillovers Using Firm and Product Dynamics

  • Sevin Kaytan - The Long-term Effects of After-school Care

We warmly congratulate all awardees for their remarkable work and extend our sincere appreciation to all applicants, whose research and commitment contribute greatly to the vitality and excellence of our community.

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