Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2009
A prize of £1000 is awarded each year for the best full-length article published in the Journal of Institutional Economics in the preceding calendar year. Approval to use the Ostrom name has been obtained from the Indiana University Foundation. Each annual prize competition is judged by an international jury of experts in the field of institutional research. The 2019 jury will be Elodie Bertrand, Maria Federica Carugati, Christopher Coyne, David Dequech and Thrainn Eggertsson.
2021 Elinor Ostrom Prize
For the 2021 Elinor Ostrom Prize the following articles were shortlisted by the Ostrom Prize Committee:
Yang Zhou, “The Horizontal ‘Checks and Balances’ in the Socialist Regime: The Party Chief and Mayor Template”, JOIE 16(1): 65-82.
Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili and Jennifer Murtazashvili, “The Politics of Land Property Rights”, JOIE 16(2): 151-167.
Dean Lueck and Gustavo Torrens, “Property Rights and Domestication“, JOIE 16(2): 199-215.
Abigail Devereaux and Linan Peng, “Give Us a Little Social Credit: To Design or To Discover Personal Ratings in the Era of Bg Data“, JOIE 16(3): 369-387.
David Skarbek, “Qualitative Research Methods for Institutional Analysis”, JOIE 16(4): 409-422.
Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt, “Traditional Law in Times of the Nation State: Why Is It So Prevalent?” JOIE 16(4): 445-461.
David Ciepley, “The Anglo-American Misconception of Stockholders as ‘Owners’ and ‘Members’: Its Origins and Consequences”, JOIE 16(5): 623-642.
The award will be announced on 7 August 2021, on Elinor Ostrom’s birthday.
2021 Ostrom Prize Committee: Richard Adelstein, Elodie Bertrand, Daniel Cole, Christopher Coyne, David Dequech, Brett Frischmann, Sophia du Plessis, Thráinn Eggertsson, Roger Koppl, Michael McGinnis, Sheilagh Ogilvie, Edella Schlager, Mary Shirley and Irene van Staveren.
2020 Elinor Ostrom Prize
Elise S. Brezis and Joël Cariolle, “The Revolving Door, State Connections and Inequality of Influence in the Financial Sector“, JOIE 15(4): 595-614.
The award was announced on 7 August 2020, on Elinor Ostrom’s birthday.
2020 Ostrom Prize Committee: Elodie Bertrand, Federica Carugati, Christopher Coyne, David Dequech and Thráinn Eggertsson.
2019 Elinor Ostrom Prize
Robbert Maseland, “Is Colonialism History? The Declining Impact of Colonial Legacies on African Institutional and Economic Development”, JOIE 14(2): 258-287.
Colin Harris, “Institutional Solutions to Free-Riding in Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Case Study of Online Pirate Communities”, JOIE 14(5): 901-924.
The award was made at the Sixth WINIR Conference in Lund, Sweden.
2019 Ostrom Prize Committee: Elodie Bertrand, Federica Carugati, Christopher Coyne, David Dequech and Thráinn Eggertsson.
2018 Elinor Ostrom Prize
Avner Greif and Joel Mokyr, “Cognitive Rules, Institutions and Economic Growth: Douglass North and Beyond”, JOIE 13(1): 25-52.
The award was made at the Fifth WINIR Conference in Hong Kong, China.
2018 Ostrom Prize Committee: Christopher Coyne, David Dequech, Thráinn Eggertsson and Will Milberg.
Read the statement by Professors Avner Greif and Joel Mokyr here.
The 2017 Elinor Ostrom Prize
The 2017 Elinor Ostrom Prize was awarded to Agnès Labrousse for her article: “Not by technique alone: a methodological comparison of development analysis with Esther Duflo and Elinor Ostrom”, JOIE 12(2), June 2016.
These two other artices were shortlisted for the 2017 prize:
- Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, “Max U versus Humanomics: a critique of neo-institutionalism”, JOIE 12(1): 1-27.
- Viktor Vanberg, “Competitive federalism, government’s dual role, and the power to tax”, JOIE 12(4): 825-845.
The 2016 Elinor Ostrom Prize
The 2016 Elinor Ostrom Prize was awarded to Roger Koppl, Stuart Kauffman, Teppo Felin, and Giuseppe Longo, for their article “Economics for a creative world” JOIE 11(1), March 2015.
These four other artices were shortlisted for the 2016 prize:
- Ugo Pagano and Massimiliano Vatiero, “Costly institutions as substitutes: Novelty and limits of the Coasian approach” JOIE 11(2), June 2015
- Frank Hindriks and Francesco Guala, “Institutions, rules, and equilibria: A unified theory” JOIE 11(3), September 2015
- Giovanni Dosi and Luigi Marengo, “The dynamics of organizational structures and performances under diverging distributions of knowledge and different power structures” JOIE 11(3), September 2015
- Cass R. Sunstein and Reid Hastie, “Garbage in, garbage out? Some micro sources of macro errors” JOIE 11(3), September 2015
The above five articles can be downloaded free from HERE
The third Elinor Ostrom Prize was awarded in 2016 for the best full-length article published in the Journal of Institutional Economics in 2015. The jury consisted of Bruno Amable, Christopher Coyne, David Dequech, Thrainn Eggertsson, William Milberg, and Malcolm Rutherford. The award was made at the conference of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research, in Boston, MA, USA on 2-5 September 2016.
The 2015 Elinor Ostrom Prize
The 2015 Elinor Ostrom Prize was awarded to Daniel H. Cole, Graham Epstein and Michael McGinnis for their article “Digging deeper into Hardin’s pasture: The complex institutional structure of the ‘tragedy of the commons’” – JOIE 10(3) Sep 2014.
These four other articles were shortlisted for the 2015 prize:
- John Buchanan, Dominic Chai and Simon Deakin, “Empirical analysis of legal institutions and institutional change: multiple-methods approaches and their application to corporate governance research” – JOIE 10(1) Mar 2014.
- Xavier Hollandts and Virgile Chassignon, “Who are the owners of the firm: shareholders, employees or no-one?” – JOIE 10(1) Mar 2014.
- Juha Hiedanpää and Daniel W. Bromley, “Payments for environmental services: Durable habits, dubious nudges, doubtful efficacy” – JOIE 10(2) Jun 2014.
- Valentin Seidler, “When do institutional transfers work? The relation between institutions, culture and the transplant effect: the case of Bornu in north-eastern Nigeria.” – JOIE 10(3) Sep 2014.
The above five articles can be downloaded free from HERE
The second Elinor Ostrom Prize was awarded in 2015 for the best full-length article published in the Journal of Institutional Economics in 2015. The jury consisted of Bruno Amable, Christopher Coyne, Thrainn Eggertsson, William Milberg, Ugo Pagano and Malcolm Rutherford. The award was made at the conference of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 10-13 September 2015.
The 2014 Elinor Ostrom Prize
The 2014 Elinor Ostrom Prize was awarded to Fabio Landini for his article “Institutional change and information production” – JOIE 9(3) Sep 2013.
These three other articles were shortlisted for the 2014 prize:
· Richard Grabowski, “The formation of growth coalitions: The role of the rural sector” – JOIE 9(3) Sep 2013
· Francisco Beltrán Tapia, “Enclosing literacy? Common lands and human capital in Spain, 1860-1930” – JOIE 9(4) Dec 2013
· Stefan Voigt, “How (not) to measure institutions” – JOIE 9(1) Mar 2013
The first Elinor Ostrom Prize was awarded in 2014 for the best full-length article published in the Journal of Institutional Economics in 2013. The jury consisted of Timur Kuran, Ugo Pagano, Mary Shirley and Ulrich Witt. The award was made at the conference of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research, in Greenwich, London, UK on 11-14 September 2014.