The Yrjö Jahnsson Award is a biennial award given by the Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation

Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation

The Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation is a charitable foundation whose aims are to not only promote Finnish research in economics and medicine but also to maintain and support educational and research facilities in Finland. It was established in 1954 by the wife of Yrjö Jahnsson, Mrs. Hilma Jahnsson.It...

 and the European Economic Association

European Economic Association

The European Economic Association is a professional academic body which links European economists. It was founded in the mid-1980s. Its first annual congress was in 1986 in Vienna, Austria...

 (EEA) to European economists under the age of 45 "who have made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to the study of economics in Europe." The selection committee, chaired by the president of the EEA, consists of five members, four nominated by the European Economic Association and one by the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation. The selection committee consults all EEA fellows individually and uses their responses together with their own judgment to form a short list.

Recipients

The following list is from the European Economic Association and Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation.

Year	Recipients
1993	Jean-Jacques Laffont Jean-Jacques Laffont Jean-Jacques Marcel Laffont was a French economist specializing in public economics and information economics. Educated at the University of Toulouse and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique in Paris, he was awarded the Ph.D...  and Jean Tirole Jean Tirole Jean Marcel Tirole is a French professor of economics. He works on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and economics and psychology. Tirole is director of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation at the Toulouse School of Economics, and scientific director of the Industrial...
1995	Richard Blundell Richard Blundell Richard Blundell, CBE, FBA is a British Economist and Econometrician.He is currently the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London and Research Director at Institute for Fiscal Studies...
1997	Torsten Persson Torsten Persson Torsten Persson is a Swedish economist and the director of the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. He has also taught in England, the United States, and Israel...
1999	Nobuhiro Kiyotaki Nobuhiro Kiyotaki is a Japanese economist and professor at Princeton University especially known for proposing several models that provide deeper microeconomic foundations for macroeconomics, some of which play a prominent role in New Keynesian macroeconomics.-Career:...  and John Moore John Hardman Moore John Hardman Moore is an economic theorist. He was appointed Professor of Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh in 2000. Previously, in 1983, he was appointed to the London School of Economics, where in 1990 he became Professor of Economic Theory, a position he still holds.- Education...
2001	Philippe Aghion Philippe Aghion Philippe Aghion is a French economist. He is Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University, having previously been Professor at University College London, an Official Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology .His main...  and Guido Tabellini Guido Tabellini Guido Enrico Tabellini is an Italian economist who is currently Rector of Bocconi University.He received his Laurea in 1980 from the University of Turin, and his Ph.D. in 1984 from UCLA. He first taught at Stanford, then at UCLA, and later in Italy. He is past president of the European Economic...
2003	Mathias Dewatripont Mathias Dewatripont Mathias François Dewatripont is a Belgian economist and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles and visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ....
2005	Tim Besley Tim Besley Timothy John Besley, CBE served on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from September 2006 to August 2009 and is Kuwait professor of economics and political science at the London School of Economics, Director of the Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related...  and Jordi Galí Jordi Galí Jordi Galí is a Spanish macroeconomist who is regarded as one of the main figures in New Keynesian macroeconomics today...
2007	Gilles Saint-Paul Gilles Saint-Paul Gilles Saint-Paul is a French economist at the Toulouse 1 University Social Sciences. He also is a scientific advisor to the Economic Studies Directorate at the French Ministry of the Environment. His main interests include the political economy of unemployment and how information technology...
2009	John van Reenen John Van Reenen (economist) John Michael Van Reenen is a Professor in the Department of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He also serves of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Industrial Economics. In 2009 he was awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Award.-External links:*...  and Fabrizio Zilibotti Fabrizio Zilibotti Fabrizio Zilibotti is an Italian economist. He is currently the Head of the Chair of Macroeconomics and Political Economy of the University of Zürich's Department of Economics. Zilibotti was previously Professor of Economics at University College London and at the Institute for International...
2011	Armin Falk Armin Falk Armin Falk is a German economist. He holds a chair at the University of Bonn since 2003.-Biography:Born in Bergisch-Gladbach, Falk attended the University of Cologne majoring in economics...

External links

• Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
• European Economic Association Awards