EAEPE runs three prizes: the EAEPE Prize, the Gunnar Myrdal Prize and the Herbert Simon Young Scholar Prize.

EAEPE Prize (former K. William Kapp Prize)

Awarded annually for the best article on a theme broadly in accord with the EAEPE Theoretical Perspectives.

Amount: 1000 € (funded by EAEPE).

Awarded annually for the best monograph (i.e. a book and excluding multi-authored collections of essays) on a theme broadly in accord with the EAEPE Theoretical Perspectives.

Amount: 2000 € (funded by EAEPE). 

Herbert Simon Young Scholar Prize

The Herbert Simon Young Scholar Prize is awarded annually for the best conference paper by a young scholar.

Amount: 1000 € (funded by EAEPE).

Rules for the EAEPE Prize and the Gunnar Myrdal Prize

The contribution must be on a theme broadly in accord with the EAEPE Theoretical Perspectives.  

The closing date for the EAEPE and Myrdal prizes is January 1st of each year.

Submissions for the EAEPE Prize and the Herbert Simon Young Scholar Prize should be for texts no older than 2 years (e.g. for the 2011 award, i.e. 1 January 2009). They should be published papers or manuscripts consisting of minimum 5000, maximum 12000 words. 

Entries should be sent to the EAEPE Prize Competition Coordinator, Jean-Christophe Graz (jean-christophe.graz@unil.ch).

If your entry is sent to the wrong address, delay will result and you may miss the 1 January deadline for the prize. EAEPE will not be held responsible for prize submissions that are dispatched to the wrong address.

Five non-returnable copies should be submitted for the EAEPE Prize and
four non-returnable entries for the Myrdal Prize. Awards of the prizes will be made at the anual EAEPE Conference.

Only one entry per author will be considered. 

All candidates, i.e. authors, must be paid-up members of EAEPE for the year for which the prize is awarded. It is planned that the Council will judge both prizes by April of each year. Any member of the EAEPE Council or trustee of the Foundation for European Economic Development serving at any time from 1 January of the year before the year of competition to 1 July of the year of the competition inclusive shall be ineligible to enter.

The EAEPE Council reserves the right not to award a prize if the entries are below the required quality.  

Rules for Herbert Simon Young Scholar Prize: 

The closing date for the Herbert Simon Young Scholar Prize is October 15 of each year. Only one entry per author will be considered.  No applicant shall have reached his or her 35th birthday in the year of the prize award (those who are within 3 years after completion of his or her PhD may also be considered).

Entries should be sent to the EAEPE Prize Competition Coordinator, Jean-Christophe Graz (jean-christophe.graz@unil.ch).

In the case of two or more co-authors the above criteria applies to all authors.

Applicants must be fully paid-up EAEPE members by 1st September of the year of competition. They must attend and present their paper at the EAEPE conference for that year. All applicants must have the abstract of their paper accepted for the EAEPE conference and they must submit the electronic version of their paper by the advertised due date for inclusion on the EAEPE web site.

Applicants should register for the conference and submit their full paper online at least one month before the conference.  They will be prompted for age and if they wish to have their paper considered for the prize.

The EAEPE Council reserves the right not to award a prize if the entries are below the required quality.