FIRST TSEKOURAS PRIZE FOR YOUNG ECONOMISTS

The first Tsekouras Prize for Young Economists was announced in 2017. The first committee was asked to nominate the five best papers (this year 6 papers were nominated, because of tie) among the approx. 100 papers presented at the 7th ASECU Youth International Conference and Summer School, organised in Possidi, Chalkidiki Greece, 20-27 of August 2017, under the topic “History is back, Institutional Socioeconomic & Business Challenges in a rapidly changing world”

According the decision of the first committee the nominated papers where the following:

AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH OF THE EFFECTS OF CHINA’S SUPPLY SIDE STRUCTURAL REFORM ON COAL INDUSTRY, by Anke Bai, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, China

A WAVELET COHERENCE ANALYSIS CONTGION IN EMERGING COUNTRIES STOCK MARKETS, By Harun Ercan, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN PRODUCTIVITY OF GERMAN ECONOMY FROM UNIFICATION TILL EURO-CRISIS: AN INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS, by Alexandros GYMNOPOULOS , Athanasios POULAKIS, Charalampos POULAKIS and Nikolaos CHATZARAKIS, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

INTERNATIONAL EMISSIONS TRADING: THE FUTURE CAPABILITIES, by F. Koleonidis and G. Skreka, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

MODELING PAID WORK PATTERNS IN GREECE FROM DAILY TIME-DIARY EVIDENCE, by Luca Lodi, Centre for Planning and Economic Research (KEPE), Athens, Greece

EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF SUBSIDIES FOR INVESTMENTS USING STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS: CASE OF SERBIA, by V. Bojovic and F. Obradovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia

The authors of the papers were invited to present their papers at the 14th ASECU International Conference, on the topic Towards Productive, Sustainable and Resilient Economic Development. New Ideas about Industrial Policy, Modern Technology Impact and Globalization, organized by Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra Slovakia, 16-18 May, 2018
Α tripartite committee appointed by the Board of ASECU, is asked to evaluate the papers and after their blind review the 1st TSEKOURAS PRIZE FOR YOUNG ECONOMISTS was awarded to the paper
EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF SUBSIDIES FOR INVESTMENTS USING STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS: CASE OF SERBIA, by V. Bojovic and F. Obradovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
The President of the Board of ASECU, Prof. Bozidar Cerovic announced the first prize to the awarded authors and gave them the respective grant.