2009 Nobel Prize Winners

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009 was awarded to Elinor Ostrom for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons and Oliver E. Williamson for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm.

Besides publishing many of their own papers with Elsevier Professor Williamson currently serves as   Honorary Editor for   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and is an editorial board member of   Journal of Socio-Economics.  Professor Ostrom is an editorial board member for Elsevier journals   Ecological Economics and   Global Environmental Change.

In recognition of the importance of their work, we are pleased to offer open access to a selection of articles that Ostrom and Williamson have published with Elsevier.

  First ever published video abstract in economics 
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Investigating bid preferences at low-price, sealed-bid auctions with endogenous participation
Timothy P. Hubbard, Harry J. Paarsch

International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2009

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  Latest Impact Factors

  Welcome to the Elsevier podcast, where we are joined today by Paul Willen, Senior Economist and Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Paul’s recent study exploring the decline of house prices and the relationship between negative housing equity and mortgage default, has been published in Elsevier’s Journal of Urban Economics.

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This podcast represents the views of Paul Willen, if listeners would like to read the full study you can find it within the Journal of Urban Economics on ScienceDirect.

View the free author workshop videocast from the 12^th International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. The presentation was delivered by Jeroen Loos, Publisher, and focused on key issues surrounding how to get published with specific reference to Insurance: Mathematics and Economics.

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Elsevier is pleased to announce the following journals have been accepted for coverage in Current Contents/Social Behavioural Sciences and in the Social Sciences Citation Index.

• International Review of Economics & Finance
• European Journal of Political Economy

These journals will get an Impact Factor in the 2010 Journal Citation Reports, released in 2011.

Journal of Urban Economics

-Dan Black, University of Chicago and National Opinion Research Center
-Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto
-Robert Helsley, UC Berkeley

Call for Papers: Fifth IZA/World Bank Conference on ‘Employment and Development’ (3 – 4 May, 2010)
Papers should be submitted by 15 November, 2009

Call for Papers: Causes, Consequences and Cures for the Subprime Mortgage and Financial Crisis
Journal of Economics & Business
Extended deadline: articles should be submitted by 1 February, 2010  using Elsevier’s online submission system http://ees.elsevier.com/jeb.
 

Call for Papers: Heckscher-Ohlin Theory: A Modern Approach.
International Review of Economics & Finance
Articles should be submitted by 31 December 2009
  

The Paul Geroski Best Paper Award

The Paul Geroski Best Paper Award is awarded to the two best papers published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization each year. Papers are selected by the editorial board of the journal.  The award was established in 2007 and first rewarded in 2007 for papers published in the year 2006. The award is named after Professor Paul Geroski who served as co-Managing Editor of the IJIO from 1987-1992, who passed away in 2005.

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2008 Ross Best Paper Award Winners

We are very pleased to announce the joint winners of the Ross Best Paper Award for Finance Research Letters.

-Modeling loan commitments
Sudheer Chava, Robert Jarrow
Finance Research Letters, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 11-20

-Patterns in cross market liquidity
Matthew Spiegel
Finance Research Letters, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 2-10

Warmest congratulations to the winners! The winners will be announced in the June issue of the journal.

EALE/Labour Economics 2008 Best Paper Award

The biannual 2008 EALE/Labour Economics best paper award was awarded to Professor S.E. Carrell for his paper

• The National Internal Labor Market Encounters the Local Labor Market: Effects on Employee Retention, published in Labour Economics in October 2007.

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