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Economic Journalism Award 2025

2024 Economic Journalism Award, Kurt Schmidheiny (president) and Fabio Canetg

The Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics presents the Economic Journalism Award 2025 to

Mathilde Farine (RTS)

for her extensive coverage of economics, finance and monetary policy matters in Switzerland. Her articles are topical and precise. They are also well-balanced from an economics standpoint, and make use of academic developments.

SSES Young Economist Award 2025

2024 Young Economist Award, Patrick Bigler and Simon Luechinger

The Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics presents the SSES Young Economist Award 2025 to

Marcel Caesmann (University of Zurich), Janis Goldzycher (University of Zurich), Matteo Grigoletto (University of Bern) and Lorenz Gschwent (University Duisburg-Essen) for their paper «Censorship in Democracy» presented at the 2025 Annual Congress at ETH Zurich.

The SSES Young Economist Award is granted on every Annual Congress of the Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES) since 2007. The prize (CHF 2'000) is awarded for the best paper where all co-authors are less than 33 years old.

SJES Best Paper Award 2025

2024 SJES Best Paper Award, Marius Brülhart (editor-in-chief) and Fabienne Helfer

The Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics presents the SJES Best Paper Award 2025 to

Brendan Berthold for his paper «The Macro-Financial Effects of Climate Policy Risk: Evidence from Switzerland» published in volume 160 of the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics.