Initiated in 2018, the Lasserre-Renzetti Prize for best student paper is granted to a paper authored (or coauthored) by a student and presented by that student at the annual conference, and includes a prize of $500 Canadian. Criteria for the attribution of the prize shall include the quality of the paper itself as well as that of the presentation. The executive committee may establish more specific criteria.
The chair in conjunction with the executive committee shall constitute a jury before the annual meeting for the purpose of awarding the Prize to the most deserving student.
The name of the Prize is meant to honour the memory of the late Pierre Lasserre (UQAM) and Steven Renzetti (Brock), two economists who have contributed to CREEA | ACERE.
2024: Sebastian Box-Couillard (Urbana-Champagne), "Do Minorities Pay More to Avoid Flood Risk?"
2023: Emmanuel Murray Leclair (Western), "Balancing Production and Carbon Emissions with Fuel Substitution"
2022: Miao Dai (McGill), "Environmental Lobbying on Trade in Waste: Theory and Evidence"
2021: Tatiana Zarate Barrera (UBC), "Air Pollution and Crime: Evidence from Mexico City"
2020: Diego Cardoso (Cornell), "Optimal carbon taxation under oligopoly: An application to commercial aviation"
2019: Marta Talevi (LSE), "Output-based incentives for residential solar PV: Demand responsiveness, geographical distribution, and alternative policy scenarios"
2018: Akio Yamazaki (University of Calgary), "Environmental Tax Reform and Productivity: Lessons from Canadian Manufacturing"