EBS Emerging Scholar Award, 2025/2026 Academic Year
Estonian Business School.
Best Researcher of the Year
Estonian Business School.
Eesti Pank Research Award
Eesti Pank (Central Bank of Estonia), 2024.
Best Conference Paper Award, Transition 2022 Conference
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 22–23 September 2022.
Swedbank Award for Supervising the Best MA Thesis in Quantitative Economics
Awarded for supervising Danyl Denysenko’s MA thesis, “Corruption and Economic Growth: New Evidence from Satellite Data.”
Eesti Pank Research Award — 1st Place
Eesti Pank (Central Bank of Estonia). Awarded for the PhD thesis “Essays on Firm-Level Corruption.”
National Contest for University Students — 2nd Place in Social Sciences (Doctoral Level)
Estonian Research Council. Awarded for the PhD thesis “Essays on Firm-Level Corruption.”
Runner-up for Best Conference Paper, Ljubo Sirc Centenary Conference on Thirty Years of Transitions
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 25 September 2020.
Alan Rugman Memorial Fund Scholarship
Henley Business School, University of Reading, United Kingdom.