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IfW Press Release September 15, 2006
Not to be published before Friday, September 15, 2006, 4.00 p.m.
Kiel Institute awards Bernhard Harms 2006 to
Prof. Robert C. Feenstra
Today, Professor Dennis J. Snower, the President of the Kiel Institute, has awarded the Bernhard Harms Prize 2006 to Professor Robert C. Feenstra, Ph.D..
The Bernhard Harms Prize – named after the founder of the Kiel Institute – is awarded every two years. The prize in particular honors scholars with a distinguished record in the field of international economics. The prize includes a cash award of 25,000 Euro which is contributed by the Society for the Promotion of the Kiel Institute.
Professor Feenstra is one of the world-wide leading trade economists. Robert Feenstra is Professor of Economics at the University of California in Davis and Director of the Center for International Data. Since 1992, he has been Programme Director for International Trade and Investment at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Professor Feenstra is Associate Editor of the American Economic Review and the Journal of International Economics.
Professor Feenstra’s numerous publications have appeared in the top economic journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the International Economic Review, The Review of Economic Studies, The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
In his laudatio, Prof. Snower emphasized the broad variety of Prof. Feenstra’s research: “Robert Feenstra has contributed to the progress of international economics in many ways: he contributed to the theory, he developed new empirical methods, he created a superb database for international trade, he published important empirical studies with high relevance for economic policy, he set a new standard in teaching international trade at an advanced level and he supported other researchers in the field through organizing first-class networks and review processes. It is therefore a great pleasure for me to award the Bernhard-Harms-Prize to Robert Feenstra.”
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