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.

2009 Awards

The EEA and FEEM are pleased to announce the three winners of the first edition of the FEEM Award, which were presented on 25 August, 2009 at the European Economic Association meeting in Barcelona after a speech by President of the European Commission Barroso and before the Schumpeter lecture –
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) 

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