This prize is in memory of ASSET’s first elected president Louis-André Gerard-Varet, who passed away in January 2001. Louis-André Gérard-Varet was Directeur d'Etudes at EHESS, and Director of GREQAM in Marseille. He was ASSET’s chairman from 1990 to 1997 and its president from 1997 to 1999.

ASSET awards the Louis-André Gerard-Varet prize each year to a young author (either a current graduate student or a recent PhD within two years of graduation) of an outstanding paper singled out by the program committee among those submitted to the ASSET annual meeting. The recipient of the prize must be attending the annual meeting, and in the case of co-authored papers, all authors must be individually eligible.

Shortlist of LAGV prize finalists

   BARANSKI, Andrzej: "Pre-distribution Bargaining over Incentives with Endogenous Production"
   MANNA, Ester: "Delegation with a Reciprocal Agent"
   RAMIREZ, Carlos: "Inter-firm Relationships and Asset Prices"
   SAFI, Shahir: "Listen Before You Link Optimal Rules for Network Formation in the Presence of Externalities"
   VALLIZADEH, Ehsan: "Immigration, Offshoring, Tasks and Technology Adoption"

Award Winner

This year's winner of the Louis-André Gerard-Varet prize was Andrzej Baranski Madrigal.