Prizes
Sir Alec Cairncross Prize
The Scottish Economic Society awards a prize of £1000 for the best paper presented at its annual conference by an economist currently registered for a PhD or who has successfully completed a PhD within the last five years.
Consideration for the prize presupposes conference attendance and Society membership.
Prize winners are announced at the Sir Alec Cairncross Memorial Dinner.
The 2022 prize for the best paper presented at its annual conference
Winner
Conrad Copeland, for his paper "Riding the Monsoon: Geography and Iron Age Trade in the Indian Ocean”
Runner up
Luis Baldomero-Quintana, Enrique de la Rosa-Ramos, Guillermo Woo-Mora, for their paper "Infrastructures of Race? Colonial Indigenous Zoning and Contemporaneous Urban Segregation”
SJPE Best Paper 2021
Awarded by the Editor of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy for the best paper published in the SJPE in the previous Calendar year.
Winner
Martin Feldkircher, Florian Huber, and Michael Pfarrhofer: "Measuring the Effectiveness of US Monetary Policy during the COVID-19 Recession”, SJPE 68(3): 287-297.Membership enquiries:
Caroline Alcock
calcock@wiley.com