Gossen Prize
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The Gossen Prize is an annual award given by the Verein für Socialpolitik
Verein für Socialpolitik
The Verein für Socialpolitik is an important society of economists in the German-speaking area. The Society, which covers all branches of economics was founded in 1873. Among its members were eminent economists like Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner.It annually awards the Gossen Prize to...

 to German-speaking
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 economists under the age of 45 whose work gained international recognition. The jury—the extended committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik—especially considers the scientist's number of publications in prestigious English-speaking journals and his mentions on the Social Sciences Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index is an interdisciplinary citation index product of Thomson Reuters' Healthcare & Science division. It was developed by the Institute for Scientific Information from the Science Citation Index....

. The award is named after Hermann Heinrich Gossen
Hermann Heinrich Gossen
Hermann Heinrich Gossen was a Prussian economist who is often regarded as the first to elaborate a general theory of marginal utility.-Life and work:...

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Recipients

Year Recipients
1997 Jürgen von Hagen
1998 Michael C. Burda
Michael C. Burda
Michael Christopher Burda is an American macroeconomist and professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin.Since 1993 he has served as director of the Institute for Economic Theory II and since 2007 visiting professor at the European School of Management and Technology . He has also taught at...

1999 Ernst Fehr
Ernst Fehr
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2000 Kai A. Konrad
Kai A. Konrad
Kai A. Konrad is a German economist with his main research interest in public economics.Konrad got his university degrees at the University of Heidelberg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich...

2001 Klaus M. Schmidt
2002 Lars-Hendrik Röller
2003 Harald Uhlig
Harald Uhlig
Harald Uhlig is a German economist. He is professor of economics at the University of Chicago, and Chairman of the Department of Economics since 2007. Uhlig won the Gossen Prize in 2003....

2004 Benny Moldovanu
2005 Simon Gächter
Simon Gächter
Simon Gächter is an Austrian economist. He currently is professor of the psychology of economic decision making at the University of Nottingham....

2006 Axel Ockenfels
Axel Ockenfels
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2007 Georg Nöldeke
2008 Armin Falk
Armin Falk
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2009 Holger Görg
2010 Roman Inderst
Roman Inderst
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