2025: Atif Mian (Princeton University) for his influential work on the interconnections between household debt, financial crises, and economic growth.
2024: Susan Athey (Stanford University) for her pioneering work at the intersection of technology and economics.
2023: John A. List (University of Chicago) for his pioneering contributions to field experiments in economics.
2022: Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California Berkeley) for his contributions to macroeconomics by enhancing our understanding of aggregate implications of informational frictions, effects of fiscal policy, and monetary policy.
2020: Valerie A. Ramey (University of California San Diego) for her contributions to macroeconomics, including economic fluctuations, effects of fiscal policy, inventory behavior of firms, and propagation mechanism of various shocks.
2018: Hyungsik Roger Moon (University of Southern California & Yonsei University) for his contributions to theoretical works on panel data.
2017: Michihiro Kandori (University of Tokyo) for his contributions to the theory of social norms, convention, and cooperation.
2016: Quang Vuong (New York University) for his contributions to work in econometric model selection with the Vuong test.
2015: Richard Rogerson (Princeton University) for his contributions to work in the area of macroeconomics, as well as labor and public economics.
2014: Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University & Yonsei University) for his theoretical contributions to the economic effect of innovations and antitrust.
2013: Yongsung Chang (University of Rochester & Yonsei University) for his contributions to work in macroeconomics with labor markets.
2012: In-Koo Cho (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) for his contributions to work in game theory.
2011: Jinyong Hahn (University of California, Los Angeles) for his contributions to work in developing methodologies to analyze micro-econometric data.
2010: Joon Y. Park (Indiana University) for his contributions to work in nonstationary time series and financial econometrics.
2009: Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University) for his contributions to work in financial crises and financial stability.
2008: Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University) for his contributions to work in mechanism design.
* Affiliations at the time of the award