From the EEA congress, held in Barcelona, August 2009, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei annually confers the FEEM Award, replacing the Young Economist Award.
The FEEM Award is given to the authors of the three best papers presented by young economists at the annual congress of the EEA. Eligible candidates should be less than thirty years of age and no more than three years past a PhD defence.
The FEEM Award aims to reward new ideas addressing key economic issues at the European and global scale. Both theoretical and empirical papers will be considered without any restriction of topics.
There is a monetary reward of 5,000 for each winning paper.
The Selection Committee comprises the Congress Chair, one member chosen by the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and one member chosen by the EEA Executive Committee.

2010 Awards

The EEA and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei are pleased to announce the three winners of the second edition of the FEEM Award, which was presented on 24 August, 2010 at the 25th European Economic Association meeting in Glasgow before the Adam Smith lecture, given by Professor Joseph Stiglitz. 

Florian Mayneris of CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain with the paper "Entry on Export Markets and Firm-Level Performance Growth: Intra-Industrial Convergence or Divergence"
Nina Guyon of Paris School of Economics PSE - Poverty Action Lab JPAL with the paper entitled "The Effect of Tracking Students by Ability into Different Schools"
Benjamin Elsner of University College, Dublin with the paper entitled "Does Emigration Benefit The Stayers? The Eu Enlargement As A Natural Experiment. Evidence From Lithuania"

The selection process was conducted by the FEEM Award Commission composed of Fausto Panunzi, Bocconi University and FEEM, Antonio Ciccone, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and David Stromberg, Stockholm University and EEA Congress Program Chair.

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2009 Awards

Benedicte Apouey with the paper entitled "Winning Big but Feeling no Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health";
Olga Shurchkov with the paper entitled "Under Pressure: Gender Differences in Output Quality and Quantity under Competition and Time Constraints";
Laura Turner with the paper entitled "Household Response to Individual Shocks: Disability and Labor Supply".

The selection process was conducted by the FEEM Award Commission composed of Bernardo Bortolotti, FEEM Executive Director, Antonio Ciccone, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and EEA Program Chair, and Andrea Prat, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 

 Please click here to read a summary of papers