We are very pleased to announce the five best papers selected by the Scientific Committee for this contest (authors listed in alphabetical order):
- Julio Brandao-Roll - Human Capital and Growth: The Role of High-Skill Labor Concentration
- Gabriel Leite Mariante - Cash transfers and women's labour supply: evidence from the world's largest programme
- Giulia Lo Forte - Trademarks and Gains from Variety: the Role of Multinational Enterprises
- Alejandro Sabal - Product Entry in the Global Automobile Industry
- Martin Vaeth - Rational Voter Learning, Issue Alignment, and Polarization
In addition, the Scientific Committee has awarded five special mentions as runner-up papers:
- Alireza Aghaee Shahrbabaki - The Flattening Demand Curves
- Jonathan Becker - Unequal Markup Responses in Recessions
- Joseph Alexander Emmens - Teams & Text: Collaborative Innovation in the Knowledge Space
- Lea Nagel and Roberto Saitto - As-If Dominant Strategy Mechanisms
- Jaume Vives-i-Bastida - Synthetic IV estimation in panels (with Ahmet Gulek)
Thank you all for participating in our competition.