Lars-Hendrik Röller, Professor of Economics at the Humboldt University, Berlin, and IZA Research Fellow since 1999, won this year's
Gossen Award of the
Verein fuer Socialpolitik (German Economic Association). The prize was awarded to Röller during the annual meeting of the Verein in Innsbruck, Austria. The Gossen Award honors economists from the German language area whose work has gained international reputation.
Professor Röller is Director of the Research Unit Competitiveness and Industrial Change
(CIC) at the Social Science Research Center Berlin
(WZB) and Member of the Advisory Board of the German Institute for Economic Research
(DIW Berlin).
"I regard the Gossen Award as a signal for closing the gap between theoretical and empirical research in Germany and for strenghtening empirical research," Röller said during the award ceremony.
The Gossen Award, which carries a cash prize of about 10,000 euros, is considered one of the most prestigious science awards for economists in the German language area. Röller was selected mainly for his extensive publications in renowned international journals. Since the foundation of IZA in 1998, this has been the fourth time that the award-winner is an IZA Research Fellow.
IZA's in-house researchers were also strongly represented at the Verein fuer Socialpolitik annual meeting. With 7 presented papers, IZA fares extremely well when compared to the other, much larger German research institutes:
DIW Berlin (8 papers), HWWA (2), Ifo (4), IfW (3), IWH (0), RWI (0), ZEW (7).