Economics Prize for John Van Reenen
October 2009
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —John Van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and a visiting professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is the 2009 recipient of the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics.
The award recognizes a young European economist who has made a major contribution in theoretical and applied economics. It has been equated with the John Bates Clark prize given by the American Economic Association, which recognizes the early work of similarly successful young economists who may go on to receive a Nobel Prize.
"John Van Reenen has made several contributions to the empirical analysis of labor markets, competition policy, and industrial economics, especially in areas relating to productivity growth, management practices, R&D, intellectual property, and investment decisions. He has also done pioneering work on the organizational structure of the firm and its relation to innovation, contributing both with empirical evidence and measurement tools," the European Economic Association said in announcing the prize.
He shares this year's prize with Fabrizio Zilibotti of the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich.
Van Reenen is scheduled to teach at the Stanford Business School during winter quarter and is a regular visiting professor at the School.