Economic Journal Referee Prize

The Economic Journal depends greatly on the service of its many referees for the functioning of the peer review process. We used to thank our referees with a token payment for their services. Following feedback from many of our referees, and guided by findings in the research literature (e.g. Gneezy and Rustichini, QJE, August 2000) we have decided to discontinue these payments. We would like to thank all of our many referees who continue to provide their services without compensation.

While many referees help us tremendously with their comments, some of our referees contribute beyond the call of duty through their thoroughness and constructive feedback to the authors. This service in the profession rarely gets acknowledged. Starting in 2010, the Economic Journal now recognises the contribution of these exceptional referees with an annual referee prize of £500. The editors have chosen 10 winners for the 2011 referee prizes. We thank all of them for their outstanding support of the Journal, and the service they have provided to the authors.

2012 winners

• Peter Davis, Compasslexecon
• Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
• Renato Faccini, Queen Mary University
• Gianluca Femminis, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
• Delia Furtado, University of Connecticut
• David Gill, University of Oxford
• Christian Hilber, London School of Economics
• Friederike Mengel, University of Essex
• Martin O'Connell, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Jan van Ours, Tilburg University
• Danila Serra, Southern Methodist University
• Fabian Waldinger, University of Warwick

2011 winners

• Francesco Fasani, Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC)
• Ethan Ilzetzki, London School of Economics
• Julia Lane, National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Gernot Müller , University of Bonn
• Giacomo Ponzetto, CREi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• Justin Rao, Yahoo! Research
• Burkhard Schipper, University of California, Davis
• Andrew Shephard, Princeton University
• Johannes van Biesebroeck, University of Toronto
• David Vines, University of Oxford

2010 Winners

• Vasco Carvalho, CREi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• Andrew Clark, Paris School of Economics
• Emilia Del Bono, University of Essex
• Peter Neary, University of Oxford
• Karen Norberg, Washington University in St. Louis
• James Reade, University of Birmingham
• Bent Sorensen, University of Houston
• Martin Weale, National Institute of Economic and Social Research
• Lucy White, Harvard Business School