Reinhard Selten Award Winner 2024:

Lukas Hack (Universität Mannheim)

for his paper "Progressive Income Taxation and Inflation: The Macroeconomic Effects of Bracket Creep". The prize was awarded on the VfS Annual Conference 2024 in Berlin.

Reinhard Selten Award Winner 2023:

Hanna Schwank (University of Bonn)

for her paper "Disruptive Effects of Natural Disasters: The 1906 San Francisco Fire". The prize was awarded on the VfS Annual Conference 2023 in Regensburg.

Reinhard Selten Award Winner 2022:

Katharina Brütt and Huaiping Yuan (University of Amsterdam)

for their paper: "Pitfalls of Pay Transparency: Evidence from the Lab and the Field ". The prize was awarded on the VfS Annual Conference 2022 in Basel.

Reinhard Selten Award Winner 2021:

Alina Kristin Bartscher (Danmarks Nationalbank)

for her paper: "It Takes Two to Borrow: The Effects of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act on Homeownership and Mortgage Debt of Married Couples". The prize was awarded on the virtual VfS Annual Conference 2021.

Reinhard Selten Award Winner 2020:

Jonas Löbbing (University of Cologne)

for his paper: "Redistributive Income Taxation with Directed Technical Change". The prize was awarded on the virtual VfS Annual Conference 2020.

Reinhard Selten Award Winner 2019:

Anna Kerkhof (University of Cologne)

for her paper: "Advertising and Content Differentiation: Evidence from YouTube". The prize was awarded on the VfS Annual Conference 2019 in Leipzig.

Reinhard Selten Award Winner 2018:

Johannes Wohlfart (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main) and Christopher Roth (Oxford University)

for their paper: "How Do Expectations About the Macroeconomy Affect Personal Expectations and Behavior?". The prize was awarded on the VfS Annual Conference 2018 in Freiburg.

Reinhard Selten Award Winner 2017:

Marie Lechler (LMU) und Lachlan McNamee (Stanford University)

for their paper: "Decentralized Depotism? Indirect Colonial Rule Undermines Contemporary Democratic Attitudes". The prize was awarded on the VfS Annual Conference 2017 in Vienna.

Reinhard Selten Award Winner 2016:

Ulrich Glogowsky (LMU)

for his paper: "Behavioral Responses to Wealth Transfer Taxation: Bunching Evidence from Germany". The prize was awarded on the VfS Annual Conference 2016 in Augsburg.

Reinhard Selten Award Winner 2015:

Jens Wrona (Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics)

for his paper: "Border Effects without Borders". The prize was awarded on the VfS Annual Conference 2015 in Münster.

Reinhard Selten Award Winner 2014:

Florian Sarnetzki und Andreas Dzemski (both University Mannheim)

for their paper: "Overidentification test in a nonparametric treatment model with unobserved heterogeneity". The prize was awarded on the VfS Annual Conference 2014 in Hamburg.

Reinhard Selten Award Winner 2013:

Christian Michel (University Mannheim)

for his paper: "Identification and Estimation of Intra-Firm and Industry Competition via Ownership Change". The prize was awarded on the VfS Annual Conference 2013 in Dusseldorf.

Reinhard Selten Award Winners 2012:

Sebastian Findeisen (University Zürich) und Dominik Sachs (University Konstanz) 

for their paper: "Education and Optimal Dynamic Taxation". The prize was awarded on the VfS Annual Conference 2012 in Gottingen.

Reinhard Selten Award Winners 2011:

Eva Hoppe und David Kusterer (both University of Köln) 

for their paper: "Conflicting Tasks and Moral Hazard: Theory and Experimental Evidence".

Nora Szech (University Bonn) 

for her paper: "Tie-Breaks and Bid-Caps in All-Pay Auctions". The prize was awarded on the VfS Annual Conference 2011 in Frankfurt/Main.