Germán Bernácer Prize


The Bernacer Prize is awarded annually to European young economists who have made outstanding contributions in the fields of macroeconomics and finance. The prize is named after Germán Bernácer, an early Spanish macroeconomist.
The prize was created in 2001 by the Observatorio del Banco Central Europeo, a European nonprofit association of economists focusing on watching the European Central Bank and promoting the public debate on issues related with the Eurozone economy and with the aim of improving the quality of economic policy.
The Bernacer prize was established to recognize the work of young European economists and to stimulate research on Eurozone macroeconomics and financial issues. Modelled on the John Bates Clark Medal, prizewinners are European Union country economists under the age of 40.
The prize includes a diploma and a cash award of €30,000. From the first edition of the prize to the 10th edition, the prize was sponsored by Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo. Since the 11th edition the sponsor has been Banco Santander.
Prizewinners usually receive the diploma directly from the Chairman of the Selection Committee together with a representative of the sponsor and/or the Governor of Bank of Spain, at a solemn ceremony award in Madrid. The diploma contains a text in English with the name of the laureate and a citation of why they received the award.

Prizewinners

2001–2010

;2001
The 2001 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the Irish economist Philip Lane "for outstanding contributions to European monetary economics".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on November 23, 2001.
;2002
The 2002 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the Spanish economist José Manuel Campa "for his outstanding research on exchange rate behaviour and internacional finance".
The award ceremony took place in Alicante on December 3, 2002.
;2003
The 2003 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the Italian economist Luigi Zingales "for his important research on financial markets and fight of poverty".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on April 19, 2004.
;2004
The 2004 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the German economist Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe "for her important research devoted to developing and applying the tools for evaluation of macroeconomic stabilization policies in the context of economies subject to nominal and real distortions".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on June 29, 2005.
;2005
The 2005 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the German economist Monika Piazzesi "for her important research in developing a unified approach that improves our understanding of the connection between asset prices- including bonds, equities and real estate- and the institutional features of monetary policy and the business cycles".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on May 31, 2006.
;2006
The 2006 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the French economist Hélène Rey "for her important research on the determinants and consequences of external trade and financial imbalances, the theory of financial crisis and the internationalization of currencies. Her contributions help to improve our understanding of the connections among globalization, exchanges rates and external markets".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on May 21, 2007.
;2007
The 2007 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the French economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas "for his important research on explaining recent facts in global macroeconomics and finance, evaluating the gains of financial integration and analyzing the importance of precautionary saving in optimal life--cycle models of consumption expenditure in the presence of uncertain labour income".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on May 27, 2008.
;2008
The 2008 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the German economist Markus Brunnermeier "for his important research on explaining the emergence and persistence of asset price bubbles, the causes of liquidity crises in financial markets, and the implications of these phenomena for risk management and for financial regulators".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on June 10, 2009.
;2009
The 2009 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the French economist Emmanuel Farhi "for his relevant contributions to the design of optimal taxation in business cycle models with incomplete markets, and for improving our understanding of the macroeconomic mechanisms that underlie the relationships among global imbalances, financial crashes, speculative growth episodes and real activity".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on June 2, 2010.
;2010
The 2010 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the French economist Xavier Gabaix "for his original research contributions in financial and behavioural economics, including the consequences of seemingly irrational behaviour on asset markets, and his analysis of the level of compensation of corporate executives".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on June 1, 2011.

2011–2020

;2011
The 2011 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the Danish economist Lasse Heje Pedersen "for his original research contributions on how the interaction between market liquidity risk and funding liquidity risk can create liquidity spiral and systemic financial crisis".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on June 28, 2012.
;2012
The 2012 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the British economist Nicholas Bloom "for his influential research contributions on the sources, dynamics and effects of policy and economic uncertainty on business cycles as well as on the determinants of good management practices".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on September 24, 2013.
;2013
The 2013 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the French economist Thomas Philippon "for his influential research on efficiency trends in the finance industry, the costs of financial distress and intervention policies in markets subject to adverse selection".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on November 3, 2014.
;2014
The 2014 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the Italian economist Veronica Guerrieri "for her influential research contributions regarding the application of search theory to explain the emergence of illiquidity and fire sales in different asset markets".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on May 13, 2016.
;2015
The 2015 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the Belgian economist Sitjn Van Nieuweburgh "for his influential research on the transmission of shocks in the housing market on the macro-economy and the prices of financial assets".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on December 16, 2016.
;2016
The 2016 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the Portuguese economist Ricardo Reis for his "influential research on the transmission of shocks in the presence of sticky information and the analysis of automatic stabilizers during the business cycle".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on November 24, 2017.
;2017
The 2017 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the German economist Benjamin Moll for his "path-breaking contributions to incorporate consumer and firm heterogeneity into macroeconomic models and use such models to study rich interactions between inequality and the macroeconomy".
;2018
The 2018 Bernacer Prize was awarded to the French economist Gabriel Zucman for his "influential research on wealth inequality and the redistributive effects of globalization".
The award ceremony took place in Madrid on October 11, 2019.

Selection Committee

The prize nominations are assessed by an independent Selection Committee made up of recognized members of the academic community. The committee member from the Executive Board of the European Central Bank also serves as the Chairperson of the Selection Committee, while the members choose a Secretary of the Selection Committee from within the group. Should two candidates receive the same number of votes, the Chairperson of the Committee will cast the deciding vote.
;Chairperson and Committee Member
;Secretary and Committee Member
;Committee Members :
members during selection of 2018 prize winner, if not earlier:
members prior to selection of 2018 prize winner:

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Gender of the Prizewinner