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Prestigious Yrj枚 Jahnsson Prize 2019 awarded to Professor Imran Rasul in Economics

12 April 2019

Congratulations to Professor Imran Rasul from the Department of Economics who has been announced as the joint winner of the prestigious Yrj枚 Jahnsson Prize, along with Professor Oriana Bandiera from LSE.

Imran Rasul Professor of Economics at University College London

The is a biennial award which is presented to an European economist who has made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to the economics field in Europe.

The European Economic Association (EEA) announced that the 2019 Award Selection Committee decided to jointly award Professor Imran Rasul and Professor Bandiera the Yrj枚 Jahnsson Prize for their work on the role of social relationships in economics, which has provided 鈥渟alient contributions鈥 to the field.

The two economists were also celebrated for their pioneering field experiments within the workplace and social networks. The EEA explains that Rasul and Bandiera鈥檚 experiments have 鈥渂ecome a role model for randomised control trials for incentive treatments and they have deeply influenced the applied microeconomics field. Their transformative work has inspired a generation of applied economists鈥.

On receiving the Yrj枚 Jahnsson Prize, Professor Imran Rasul says: 鈥淚t is a great honour to receive this award. It would not have been possible without all the great colleagues, and students, I have at 香港六合彩中特网 Economics and the Institute for Fiscal Studies鈥.

鈥淢y work combines microeconometric methods, theory and measurement tools. I have engaged in primary data collection, and the design and implementation of randomized control trials. I have always tried to draw on insights from economics and other disciplines, to answer policy relevant questions. These are all core aspects of how economic science is conducted at 香港六合彩中特网鈥.

鈥淭here has never been a better time to study economics and to use its tools to investigate pressing societal challenges, such as the causes and consequences of inequality, poverty reduction, and the changing landscape of labour markets. I look forward to working with colleagues at 香港六合彩中特网 and the IFS in using economic analysis to provide rigorous scientific answers to how these issues can be understood and tackled鈥.

Head of the Economics Department, Antonio Cabrales, praises Imran for also being 鈥渧ery influential outside academia鈥, explaining how he promoted the #WhatEconomistsReallyDo hashtag 鈥渢o dispel erroneous notions about economic research鈥.

This is the second year in succession a member of the Department of Economics at 香港六合彩中特网 has won the Yrj枚 Jahnsson Prize. The last recipient of the award was Professor Ran Spiegler in 2017.