The Gossen Prize is an annual award given by the Verein für Socialpolitik

Verein für Socialpolitik

The Verein für Socialpolitik is an important society of economists in the German-speaking area. The Society, which covers all branches of economics was founded in 1873. Among its members were eminent economists like Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner.It annually awards the Gossen Prize to...

 to German-speaking

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 economists under the age of 45 whose work gained international recognition. The jury—the extended committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik—especially considers the scientist's number of publications in prestigious English-speaking journals and his mentions on the Social Sciences Citation Index

Social Sciences Citation Index

Social Sciences Citation Index is an interdisciplinary citation index product of Thomson Reuters' Healthcare & Science division. It was developed by the Institute for Scientific Information from the Science Citation Index....

. The award is named after Hermann Heinrich Gossen

Hermann Heinrich Gossen

Hermann Heinrich Gossen was a Prussian economist who is often regarded as the first to elaborate a general theory of marginal utility.-Life and work:...

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Recipients

Year	Recipients
1997	Jürgen von Hagen
1998	Michael C. Burda Michael C. Burda Michael Christopher Burda is an American macroeconomist and professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin.Since 1993 he has served as director of the Institute for Economic Theory II and since 2007 visiting professor at the European School of Management and Technology . He has also taught at...
1999	Ernst Fehr Ernst Fehr Ernst Fehr is an economist from Austria. He is Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economic Research and chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Zürich, Switzerland...
2000	Kai A. Konrad Kai A. Konrad Kai A. Konrad is a German economist with his main research interest in public economics.Konrad got his university degrees at the University of Heidelberg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich...
2001	Klaus M. Schmidt
2002	Lars-Hendrik Röller
2003	Harald Uhlig Harald Uhlig Harald Uhlig is a German economist. He is professor of economics at the University of Chicago, and Chairman of the Department of Economics since 2007. Uhlig won the Gossen Prize in 2003....
2004	Benny Moldovanu
2005	Simon Gächter Simon Gächter Simon Gächter is an Austrian economist. He currently is professor of the psychology of economic decision making at the University of Nottingham....
2006	Axel Ockenfels Axel Ockenfels Axel Ockenfels is a German economist. He is currently professor of political economics at the University of Cologne.Ockenfels received his Diplom in economics from the University of Bonn in 1994, where he studied under Reinhard Selten...
2007	Georg Nöldeke
2008	Armin Falk Armin Falk Armin Falk is a German economist. He holds a chair at the University of Bonn since 2003.-Biography:Born in Bergisch-Gladbach, Falk attended the University of Cologne majoring in economics...
2009	Holger Görg
2010	Roman Inderst Roman Inderst Roman Inderst is a German economist. He currently holds the chair for finance and economics at the Goethe University Frankfurt. His research interests include corporate finance, banking, competition policy, and information economics...