This year’s Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.
Our first Special Call for Exploratory Grant Proposals from PhD students, which closed in July 2013, received just under 50 applications. The average quality was very high. 10 proposals were selected for funding.