Central Bank of Argentina names 2024 Dr Raúl Prebisch Annual Economic Research Prize winners

The Central Bank of Argentina has announced the winning papers for the 2024 edition of its Dr Raúl Prebisch Annual Economic Research Prize, covering the categories of Economics PhD thesis, young professionals, and university students. The prize is positioned as a vehicle to promote research on monetary, macroeconomic, financial, banking and related topics. In the university student category, the first prize went to Lucas Sebastián Ordoñez (University of Buenos Aires) for “The transmission of supply shocks to inflation: the case of Argentina (2004–2022)”. The young professionals category awarded a shared first prize to Horacio Nicolás Tanzi (University of Buenos Aires and University of San Andrés) for “Inflation and risk in household investment decisions”, and Diego Germán Piccardo (University of Buenos Aires and University of CEMA) for “Fiscal devaluations in a context of financial constraints”. In the Economics PhD thesis category (theses completed in Argentina), the winning work was José Luis Espert (University of CEMA) for “Trade policy and real wages: an empirical approach to the Argentine case”; the jury included Central Bank of Argentina vice-president Vladimir Werning alongside central bank economists Mauro Alessandro and Sebastián Katz, and academic Laura D’Amato. The awarded works will be published on the prize’s section of the central bank’s website and assessed for potential inclusion in the Central Bank of Argentina’s academic journal, Ensayos Económicos.