Prizes
| Prize | Laureat | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Best paper prize at the “XX SIEPI Workshop” 2022 | Fabrizio Leone | Foreign Ownership and Robot Adoption |
| Pierre-Simon de Laplace Prize 2022 | Marc Hallin | This prize, which is the SFdS’s highest scientific distinction, is awarded every three years and rewards the lifetime achievementof a statistician who has made a significant contribution to the development of statistics in France. The prize will be given to Marc during the annual meeting of the French Statistical Society to be held in Lyon in June. |
| Adolphe Wetrems prize from the Belgian Academy of Sciences 2022 | Thomas Verdebout | Pour ses contributions remarquables sur l’analyse de variables multidimensionnelles en statistique mathématique, et en particulier à l’inférence en grande dimension et à la statistique des variables directionnelles. |
| Prix de la diffusion scientifique ULB 2021 | Michel Goldman and Mathias Dewatripont | Pour leurs interventions auprès des journalistes dans le cadre de la pandémie de Covid 19. |
| Etienne Sadi Kirschen Prize from the Association of Economists of ULB and Solvay Business School (AEBr) 2021 | Florine Le Henaff | For her master thesis “Gender gap in environmental concern and pro-environmental behaviors“ |
| UNCTAD/Academy of International Business Award 2021 | Baptiste Souillard | For the Best Research Work on International Investment and Development for his paper “The Indirect Effect of Import Competition on Corporate Tax Avoidance.” |
| Best paper at the XXXV Jornadas de Economía Industrial and RIEF Doctoral Meeting 2021 | Fabrizio Leone | For his paper : “Multinational Enterprises, Technology Transfers and Robot Adoption“ |
| Member to the High-Level Advisory Group on the main economic and social challenges the European economy will face in the post-Covid environment. 2021 | André Sapir | The 8-member Group will advise the European Commissioner for the Economy, Paolo Gentiloni |
| Membre titulaire de la Classe Technologie et Société 2020 | Estelle Cantillon | Académie Royale de Belgique |
| Council of Regents Appointment 2020 | Estelle Cantillon | National Bank of Belgium |
| Teaching Award of SBS-EM 2019 | Estelle Cantillon | For the “Sustainable Development @ SBSEM” initiative, a team-based project aimed at increasing students’ exposure to sustainability throughout their curriculum. |
| Francqui Prize 2019 | Bram De Rock | For his research in analysing individual well-being (together with Laurens Cherchye and Frederic Vermeulen). |
| Honorary PhD (University of Antwerp) 2019 | Mathias Dewatripont | For his contributions in the field of the theory of incentives and scientifically based policy contributions to the prudential regulation of financial institutions. See more. |
| Francqui Chair (USaint-Louis) 2019 | Estelle Cantillon | En revisitant Hayek: Comment concevoir les marchés pour qu’ils atteignent leurs objectifs? |
| Teaching Award of SBS-EM 2019 | Bram De Rock, Thomas Demuynck and Marjorie Gassner | This award recognises our efforts as a team for training the quantitative skills of our undergraduate students. |
| Best Paper Award at the 2019 Drexel Corporate Governance Conference (sponsored by WRDS) 2019 | Marco Becht | For his paper entitled : Corporate Governance Through Exit and Voice” (joint with J. Frakns and H. Wagner) |
| IOEA 2019 best paper 2019 | Stefano Falcone | For his paper entitled : Technological Change, Organizational Capacity and Rural Conflict: Land Occupations in Brazil. |
| Young Economist Best Paper Award 2019 | Marco Luca Pinchetti | For his paper entitled “Creative Destruction Cycles: Schumpeterian Growth in an Estimated DSGE Model”. |
| Best paper award at 17th annual GEP/CEPR post-graduate conference. 2019 | Michael Blanga-Gubbay | |
| IAERE Young Environmental Economist Award 2019 | Elisabetta Cornago | awarded by the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Here |
| Hans Raupach Best Paper Award 2018 | Baptiste Souillard | by the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies for “No Bad Weather, Only Bad Clothes? Investment climate, Capabilities and Firm Performance in India”. |
| Etienne Sadi Kirschen Prize 2017 | Sarah Rosenberg | For best thesis at SBS-EM. |
| Sun Yefang Award 2017 | Patrick Legros | Best economic research in China. |
| Best Poster Award 2017 | Tillmann Heidelk | Poster session of ECARES, for paper “The Returns to Education in the Context of a Natural Disaster: Evidence from the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti”. |
| Prix Kirschen 2016 | Sarah Rosenberg | For the Best Master’s Thesis in Applied Economics, Solvay Schools Alumni |
| Pioneer Price of the KU Leuven 2015 | Bram De Rock | This award is for a research group that has initiated and conducted research that is scientifically innovative and opened a completely new avenue of research. (together with Laurens Cherchye and Frederic Vermeulen). |
| AAM-CAMRI Prize in Asset Management 2015 | Marco Becht (with J. Franks, J. Grant and H. Wagner) | Best paper prize that “not only recognises but celebrates excellence in applied research, be it empirical or theoretical, that is original and breaks new ground in the thinking, practice, policies and issues affecting the Asian asset management industry”. See |
| GSBE Excellent Fellow Award (Maastricht University) 2015 | Thomas Demuynck | |
| Francqui chair at the University of Namur 2015 | Bram De Rock | |
| Research Council award (KULeuven) 2012 | Bram De Rock | For his work in the Humanities and Social Science group. |
| Prix Socrate 2012 | Antonio Estache | For outstanding achievement in teaching (can only be obtained once in a career). |
| The best paper, written by economists under the age of 35 2010 | Thomas Demuynck and Bram De Rock | Awarded by: The scientific committee of the International Conference in memoriam of Maria Concetta Chiuri on Household, Labour and Migration Economics (University of Bari) |
| ULB Foundation prize 2010 | Estelle Cantillon | |
| The prize of the Association of Economics 2008 | Bram De Rock | For the paper “The revealed preference approach to collective consumption behavior: testing, recovery and welfare analysis” (awarded every two year to Flemish authors under the age of 35). (together with Laurens Cherchye and Frederic Vermeulen). |
| Francqui Chair KULeuven 2005 | Marc Hallin | |
| Jahnsson Medal 2003 | Mathias Dewatripont | For his path-breaking contributions to both pure and applied contract theory, and organization economics. |
| Hicks‑Tinbergen Medal 2000 | Georg Kirchsteiger | by the European Economic Association for the best paper published in the associations’ journal the last two years. |
| David A. Wells Prize 2000 | Estelle Cantillon | Best Ph.D. Dissertation (Harvard University, Economics Department). |
| Young Economist Award 2000 | Estelle Cantillon | From the European Association of Research in Industrial Economics. |
| Francqui Prize 1998 | Mathias Dewatripont | |