ERMAS Association Prize
The ERMAS Association Prize is awarded yearly, starting with the 2021 edition of the ERMAS conference. (regulations in Romanian
here)
Eligibility:
- The submitted paper is accepted for presentation at the conference;
- The presenter of the paper, and all the co-authors, are at most 35 years old (at the moment of the submission for the conference);
- The presenter has Romanian/Moldavian citizenship, OR the paper uses data on Romania.
Prize value: 5000 lei (around 1000 euro) (the net amount, after paying taxes in Romania)
The decision regarding the prize is taken by the members of the conference’s scientific committee.
Winner of the ERMAS 2025 edition:
- 2025 - Adrian Ifrim (European Commission), "Heterogeneous Expectations And Wealth Inequality" (with Pau Belda, Janko Heineken).
Previous editions’ winners:
- 2024 – Mihai Codreanu (Stanford University), "Industry-Academia Ties & The Direction of Innovation: Evidence from Stanford Research Park";
- 2023 – Marcu Bogdan (University of Warwick and National Bank of Romania), "Optimal Monetary Policy and the Signal Value of Prices under Rational Inattention";
- 2022 – Andra Smadu (De Nederlandsche Bank, University of Groningen), "Uncertainty shocks and the monetary-macroprudential policy mix"; Mihai Codreanu (Stanford University), "Rationalizing entrepreneurs' forecasts";
- 2021 – Adrian Ifrim (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), "The Fed Put and Monetary Policy: An Imperfect Knowledge Approach"; Marius Zoican (University of Toronto), "The Value of ETF Liquidity".
The Best Paper of the ERMAS PhD Session
The Best Paper of the ERMAS PhD Session is awarded yearly, starting with the 2023 edition of the ERMAS conference. (regulations in Romanian
here)
Winners of the ERMAS 2025 edition:
- 2025 – Adelina Panaite ("Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași), "The Gender of Generosity: Are Women More Likely to Give or Receive Across Generations?" (with Mircea Asandului); Stefana Belbe Cioban (Babeș-Bolyai University), "Does Spatial Clustering and Dispersion persist? A Study on The Latent Spatial Processes Upon Romania’s Economical Indicators" (with István Gere, Codruța Mare).
Previous editions’ winners:
- 2024 – Zsuzsánna Wengritzky (Babeș-Bolyai University), "Welfare Effects of Price-Contingent Subsidies: Evidence From the Battery Electric Vehicle Market";
- 2023 – Florina Burdet (Babeș-Bolyai University and University Clermont-Auvergne, LEO-UCA), "An assessment of wealth effects on private non-durable consumption in European countries"; Georgiana Plesa (Bucharest University of Economic Studies and National Bank of Romania), "Data-rich model for the Romanian economy - a hybrid DSGE-DFM approach".
