The Germán Bernácer Prize has been awarded annually since 2001 to recognize economic research by European economists under 40. The prize is named for Germán Bernácer, an early Spanish macroeconomist.

The prize is awarded by the Observatorio del Banco Central Europeo http://www.obce.es ('Observatory of the European Central Bank'), an independent Spanish economic think tank. Current members of the prize committee are ECB

ECB

ECB is an abbreviation for:*European Central Bank, the central bank for the Eurozone of the European Union* East Coast Bays, a suburb of North Shore City, New Zealand**East Coast Bays AFC, a football team from East Coast Bays...

 Vice President Lucas Papademos

Lucas Papademos

Lucas Papademos is a Greek economist who has been appointed as Prime Minister of Greece since 11 November 2011.Previously, he was Governor of the Bank of Greece from 1994 to 2002 and Vice President of the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010...

, Jordi Galí

Jordi Galí

Jordi Galí is a Spanish macroeconomist who is regarded as one of the main figures in New Keynesian macroeconomics today...

, Francesco Giavazzi

Francesco Giavazzi

Francesco Giavazzi is an Italian economist who is currently Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, and a regular visiting professor at MIT.-Biography:...

, Edward C. Prescott

Edward C. Prescott

Edward Christian Prescott is an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles"...

, Eduardo Schwarz, José Viñals, Charles Wyplosz, and Juan José Dolado.

Prizewinners

• Xavier Gabaix
  Xavier Gabaix
  Xavier Gabaix is a French economist, currently a Professor of Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business. He has been listed among the top 8 young economists in the world by The Economist....
  
   2010
• Emmanuel Farhi 2009
• Markus Brunnermeier
  Markus Brunnermeier
  Markus K. Brunnermeier is a financial economist specializing in financial crises and panics. His work focuses on the role financial frictions play in the formation and collapse of economic bubbles...
  
   2008
• Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas 2007
• Hélène Rey 2006
• Monika Piazzesi 2005
• Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe 2004
• Luigi Zingales
  Luigi Zingales
  Luigi G. Zingales is the Robert C. McCormack professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Zingales also serves as a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation....
  
   2003
• José Manuel Campa 2002
• Philip R. Lane
  Philip R. Lane
  Dr Philip R. Lane is Professor of International Macroeconomics and Director of the Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. He received a doctorate in Economics at Harvard University in 1995 and was an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs...
  
  2001

External links

• Web page of the Bernácer Prize