Awards

The Oesterreichische Nationalbank has established an award to commemorate Olga Radzyner, former Head of the Foreign Research Division, who died in a tragic accident in August 1999. The award is bestowed on young economists for excellent research focused on topics of European economic integration and is conferred annually at the Conference on European Economic Integration (CEEI). In 2010, four applicants are eligible to receive a single payment of EUR 3,000 each from an annual total of EUR 12,000.

To identify their work as a submission, applicants shall mark the envelope with the reference “Olga Radzyner Award 2010” and send it by e-mail or mail to Eva Gehringer-Wasserbauer, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Foreign Research Division, Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, PO Box 61, 1011 Vienna, Austria. The Oesterreichische Nationalbank shall receive the work submitted for the award in 2010 by October 4, 2010, at the latest.

For more information, please refer to the conditions for participation or contact Eva Gehringer-Wasserbauer in the Foreign Research Division of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank.

In previous years, the Olga Radzyner Award was bestowed on the following economists:

• Tomas J. Havranek (Czech Republic) for the paper "Rose Effect and the Euro: Is the Magic Gone?"

• Daniel Hollo (Hungary) for the paper "Estimating Price Elasticities on the Hungarian Consumer Lending and Deposit Markets: Demand Effects and its Possible Consequences"

• Cecilia Hornok (Hungary) for the paper "Trade Without Borders: Trade Effect of the 2004 EU Enlargement"

• Aleksandra Parteka and Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz (Poland) for the paper "The Impact of Trade and Outsourcing on Skill-Specific Wage Convergence in the Integrating Europe"

• Jan Babecky (Czech Republic) for his paper "Trade Integration and Synchronization of Shocks"

• Gábor Békés (Hungary) for his paper "Location of Multinationals and Corporate Proximity: Evidence from Hungary"

• Sokol Havolli (Kosovo) for the paper "Determinants of Emigrant Earnings and Remittances: Evidence from Kosovo"

• Agnieszka Stazka (Poland) for her paper "Polen auf dem Weg zur Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion: Der flexible Wechselkurs als ein Instrument zur Absorption asymmetrischer Schocks"

• Béla Szörfi (Hungary) for his master’s thesis "Development and Regional Disparities"

• Jan Bruha and Jiri Podpiera (Czech Republic) for their paper "Transition Economy Convergence in a Two Country Model: Implications for Monetary Integration"

• Anna Lipinska (Poland) for her paper "The Maastricht Convergence Criteria and Optimal Monetary Policy for the EMU Accession Countries"

• Rosen Stoyanov Marinov (Bulgaria) for his paper "Competitive Pressure in Transition: A Role for Trade and Competition Policies?"

• Anna Naszodi (Hungary) for her study "Are the Exchange Rates of the EMU Accession Countries Anchored by their Expected Euro-Locking Rates?"

• Katja Zajc-Kejzar (Slovenia) for her study "Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Industry Structure: A Host-Country Perspective"
• Marcin Kolasa (Poland) for his study "How Does FDI Inflow affect Productivity of Domestic Firms? The Role of Horizontal and Vertical Spill-Overs, Absorptive Capacity and Competition"
• Jaroslav Borovicka (Czech Republic) for his study "Banking Efficiency and Foreign Ownership in Transition: Is there an Evidence of a "Cream-Skimming" Effect?"

• Zsolt Darvas (Hungary) for his study "Monetary Transmission in the New Members of the EU: Evidence from Time-Varying Coefficient Structural VARs"
• Agnieszka Paulina Markiewicz (Poland) for her study "Choice of Exchange Rate Regime in Central and Eastern European Countries: An Empirical Analysis"
• Saso Polanec (Slovenia) for his study "Supply Side Mechanisms in Transition"

• Kristina Karagyozova (Bulgaria) for her study "The Bank Credit Market in  Bulgaria: Factors behind the Current Expansion and Implications for Financial Stability" 

• Tamara Bašic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) for her study "What are the Costs and Benefits of Currency Boards"

• Rafal Kierzenkowski (Poland) for his study "The Multi-Regime Bank Lending Channel and the Effectiveness of the Polish Monetary Policy Transmission During Transition"  
• Márton Nagy and Csaba Móré (Hungary) for their study "Relationship between Market Structure and Bank Performance: Empirical Evidence for Central and Eastern Europe"  
• Adriana Lojschová (Slovakia) for her study "Estimating the Impact of the Balassa-Samuelson Effect in Transition Economies"  

• Vladimír Zlacký (Slovakia) for his study "Political Institutions and Pricing of Bonds on the International Markets"  

• Balázs Égert (Hungary) for his study "Reconsidering the Balassa-Samuelson Model as a Yardstick for Real Exchange Rate Determination in Transition Economies. A Tale from Central and Eastern Europe" 
• Mirsada Buric (Bosnia and Herzegovina) for her study "FDI and its Impact on National Economy: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis of CEECs, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia"