SUERF

Marjolin Prize

SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum awards the best contributions to the Colloquium. The Marjolin Prize Award was established in Thun, Switzerland, in 1995 as recognition of Robert Marjolin and his support for outstanding young author’s research paper and publication. The prize includes a financial award as well as a one year personal membership of SUERF Association. To qualify for the prize, the authors must be no older than 40 on the date the prize is awarded.

About Robert Marjolin

Robert Marjolin (1911-1986) was one of the most distinguished European economists of his generation and a leading architect of post-war Europe. From 1948 until 1955 he was the first Secretary General of the OEEC (Organization for European Economic Co-operation). This organization was established to channel US Marshall Aid into the reconstruction of Europe. Marjolin was a leading negotiator of the Treaty of Rome for France and Vice President of the European Commission for finance and economics for 10 years. He served as a Professor of Economics at the University of Paris and the University of Nancy, and in the private sector as advisor to leading European and US Companies.

A list of past Marjolin Prize winners

Date	Year	Marjolin Prize Winners	Paper
18 Nov	2024	Friedrich Geiecke, London School of Eco... Rustam Jamilov, All Souls College, Univ...	A Modern History of Inflation as Conflict
24 May	2022	Alistair Macaulay, University of Oxford	Heterogeneous information, subjective model beliefs, and the time-varying transmission of shocks
29 Mar	2019	Jorge Abad, CEMFI	Breaking the Feedback Loop: Macroprudential Regulation of Banks’ Sovereign Exposures
14 Sep	2017	Edouard Chrétien, ACPR, École Polytec... Victor Lyonnet, HEC Paris, École Polyt...	Traditional and shadow banks during the crisis
2 Feb	2016	Sascha Steffen, University of Mannheim Josef A. Korte, Goethe University Frank...	Zero Risk Contagion: Banks' Sovereign Exposure and Sovereign Risk Spillovers
4 Jun	2014	Alessandro Scopelliti, University of Wa...	Securitisation and Bank Capital in European Banking: Does Regulation affect Risk Retention Decisions?
6 Sep	2012	Andrew R. Gimber, European University I...	Bank Resolotion Reform as a Commitment Device Against Bailouts
12 May	2011	Stefan Kerbl, Oesterreichische National...	Regulatory medicine against financial market instability: What helps and what hurts?
4 Sep	2009	Marie Hoerova, European Central Bank	Liquidity Hoarding and Interbank Market Spreads: The Role of Counterparty Risk
14 Jun	2008	Tobias Berg, University of Munich	Linking Credit Risk Premia to the Equity Premium
14 Oct	2006	Vincenzo Galasso, IGIER, Bocconi Univer...	Postponing Retirement: The Political Push of Aging
16 Oct	2004	Michael Koetter, Boston Consulting Group	The Magnitude of Distortions when Measuring Bank Efficiency with Misspecified Input Prices