Showing posts with label prizes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prizes. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

New fellows of the Econometric Society

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Congratulations to the 42 newly elected Fellows of the Econometric Society. That's up from 29 new Fellows elected in 2023, which is a st...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Nobel prize medals at auction---two for chemistry (1996 and 1966)

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 For charity, to clean up estates of the departed, and for other reasons, Nobel prize medals are sometimes sold at auction.  Here are two re...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Econometric Society Fellows (2023), procedures, and some thoughts on prizes in general

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The Econometric Society has announced its newest class of Fellows. I don't know them all, but I bet they all deserve that distinction, b...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Scientific honors and gender gaps

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 Changing from an old equilibrium to a new one can involve some actions that may not persist once a new equilibrium is reached.  Here's ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Russian Journalist’s Nobel Medal Sells for $103.5 Million, with proceeds to UNICEF for Ukrainian refugees.

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 The NYT has the story: it exemplifies quite a number of things (including jump bidding in a reserve price charity auction...) Russian Journ...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

Science Talent Search in the schools, after 100 years

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 When I was in high school in the 1960's, I participated in a long-established student competition called the Science Talent Search, whi...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Promoting Quality in Research: the inaugural Einstein Foundation Awards, 2021

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 I had the privilege of being a member of the jury for the Einstein Foundation Awards, which were awarded yesterday for the first time. Here...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

AEA Awards: Clark Medal and Distinguished Fellows

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Here's the AEA announcement: 2020 American Economic Association Awards Congratulations to the 2020 John Bates Clark Medalist, Meliss...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

Auction results: Nobel medals of John Nash and Reinhard Selten

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The auction is over, and (unlike in some previous auctions) all of the items sold.  The highest profile items, namely the Nobel medals and ...