The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic held the awards ceremony for the 2025 Annual Economics Contest of the Juan Pablo Duarte Library, marking the competition’s 40th anniversary, and launched three related publications that Governor Héctor Valdez Albizu highlighted as central contributions to national economic debate. Five papers by young Dominican economists received prizes ranging from DOP 450,000 to DOP 150,000: Amanda Carolina Lebrón and Natanael Ventura Jiménez won first prize for research on labour market transitions; Yanna Cristina Dishmey Marte took second prize for work on tax reforms in an endogenous growth model with human capital; Cornelio Antonio Polanco Acosta and Nerys Federico Ramírez M. won third prize for analysis of territorial inequality and poverty impacts; Manuel Alberto Pérez Pérez and Ardanys Oscar González Marcano received fourth prize for research on climate change, growth and financial stability; and Peterson Marcellus Delgado placed fifth for a study on mobile payments adoption and macroeconomic prediction using Graph Attention Networks and Random Forest. The publications presented were Nueva literatura económica dominicana 2024 (compiling the prior year’s winning papers), Bibliografía económica dominicana 2023-2024 (a compilation of Dominican economic publications), and ¿Qué hemos aprendido de la economía dominicana? (reflections by jury members on four decades of the awards).

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