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IZA Prize Comittee 2008
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The importance of the IZA Prize in Labor Economics is best reflected in the composition of the IZA Prize Committee. Over the years, the committee has comprised Nobel Prize winners George Akerlof (University of California, Berkeley), Gary Becker (University of Chicago), James Heckman (University of Chicago) and Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University). The selection process is coordinated by IZA Director Klaus F. Zimmermann. IZA Prize Committee Members are not eligible for the award.
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Current Members |
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George A. Akerlof is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. His research borrows from sociology, psychology, anthropology and other fields to determine economic influences and outcomes. His interests include macroeconomics, poverty, family problems, crime, discrimination, monetary policy and German unification. He was co-winner of the Nobel Prize 2001 in Economics for his analysis of markets with asymmetric information. |
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Richard Portes is Professor of Economics at the London Business School. He is Founder and President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Secretary-General of the Royal Economic Society and Senior Editor and Co-Chairman of the Board of Economic Policy. His research interests include international macroeconomics, international finance and European integration. |
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Dennis J. Snower is President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. In April 1998, he joined IZA as a research fellow and acted as IZA Program Director for the "Welfare State and Labor Market" until 2004. Since 1993 he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His current research interests include issues in labor economics such as wage bargaining, the natural rate of unemployment, employment policies, and the economics of imperfect information. |
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Jan Svejnar is the Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration, Director of the International Policy Center and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He also chairs the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI in Prague. In 2008 he was a candidate for the Presidency of the Czech Republic. His areas of interest include economic development and transition, labor economics, and behavior of the firm. |
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Klaus F. Zimmermann is IZA Director and President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). He is Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn, Honorary Professor of Economics at the Free University of Berlin and the Renmin University of Peking, and Editor of the Journal of Population Economics. His research has focused on labor economics, population economics, migration, industrial organization, and econometrics. |
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Former Members |
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Gary S. Becker is University Professor at the Department of Economics and Sociology, University of Chicago. His current research focuses on habits and addictions, formation of preferences, human capital, and population growth. He won the Nobel Prize 1992 in Economics for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behavior and interaction, including nonmarket behavior. He was a member of the IZA Prize Committee from 2002 to 2004. |
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Armin Falk is Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn and IZA Program Director for Behavioral and Personnel Economics. He was IZA Research Director from October 2003 until June 2007. He is also Director of the Bonn Laboratory of Experimental Economics, Visiting Faculty Member at Central European University and a Fellow of CEPR and CESifo. His main research interests are in Behavioral and Personnel Economics. |
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James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. His recent research dealt with such issues as evaluation of social programs, econometric models of discrete choice and longitudinal data, the economics of the labor market, and alternative models of the distribution of income. He was co-winner of the Nobel Prize 2000 in Economics for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples. He was a member of the IZA Prize Committee in 2002 and 2003. |
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Gerard A. Pfann is Professor of Econometrics and Management Science at Maastricht University and served as IZA Research Director until July 2003. He is also Founder and Director of the Business Investment Research Center (BIRC) at Maastricht University. His research interests are empirical econometrics applied to labor economics, investment decision making, human resource management, and industrial organization. He was a member of the IZA Prize Committee in 2002 and 2003. |
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Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University, New York. He was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors from 1993-95 and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics, "The Economics of Information" and has made major contributions to macroeconomics and monetary theory, to development economics and trade theory, to public and corporate finance, to the theories of industrial organization and rural organization, and to the theories of welfare economics and of income and wealth distribution. |
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