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This award was first established with fund from contribution of Chikashi Moriguchi, the honorary professor of Osaka University, to encourage graduate students for their research in Economics.

27th 2024 Details	Winner	Atsuki Kotani (University of Tokyo)	"Connecting to Electricity: Technical Change and Regional Development"
	Runner-up	Hayato Umetani (Kobe University)	"Wildfires, Pollution, and Pregnancy Outcomes: Evidence from Lightning Strikes"

26th 2023 Details	Winner	Koki Okumura (UCLA)	"Inventor Mobility, Knowledge Diffusion, and Growth"
	Runner-up	Megumi Murakami (Northwestern University)	"Supply and Demand of Medical Knowledge"

25th 2022 Details	Winner	Kazuki Motohashi (Tufts University)	"Unintented Consequences of Sanitation: Negative Externalities on Water Quality and Health in India"
	Runner-up	Yang Zhou (Kobe University)	"Benefits and Costs: the Impact of Capital Control on Growth-at-risk in China"
	Runner-up	Takeshi Fukasawa (University of Tokyo)	"Firm’s Static Behavior under Dynamic Demand"

24th 2021 Details	Winner	Tatsuya Abe (Waseda University)	Welfare Effects of Fuel Tax and Feebate Policies in the Japanese New Car Market
	Runner-up	Suguru Otani (Rice University)	Estimating Endogenous Coalitional Mergers: Merger Costs and Assortativeness of Size and Specialization
	Runner-up	Yuki Takahashi (University of Bologna)	Gender Differences in the Cost of Corrections in Group Work

23rd 2020 Details	Winner	Masashi Hino (The Ohio State University)	A Model of Anticipated Consumption Tax Changes
	Runner-up	Tatsuya Asami (Kobe University)	"Timing of International Market Openings and Shrinking Middle-Income Class", Review of Development Economics, Vol. 25, Issue 4, 2021

22nd 2019 Details	Winner	Daiki Kishishita (Tokyo)	"Contagion of Populist Extremism" (with Atsushi Yamagishi), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 193, January 2021, 104324
	Runner-up	Kisho Hoshi (Hitotsubashi)	Medical Schools, Access to Doctors and Health Outcomes: Evidence from "One Prefecture, One Medical School Policy" in Japan
	Runner-up	Yusuke Kuroishi (London School of Economics and Political Science)	The Role of Trademarks in International Trade: Evidence from Chinese Exporters in the African Tyre Industry

21st 2018 Details	Winner	Jun Aoyagi (California, Berkeley)	Strategic Speed Choice by High-Frequency Traders under Speed Bumps
	Runner-up	Satoshi Kasamatsu (Tokyo)	When Populism Meets Globalization: Analysis of Tax Competition (with Daiki Kishishita) "Tax competition and political agency problems", Canadian journal of Economics, Vol. 54, Issue 4, Pages: 1782-1810
	Runner-up	Gabriel Fuentes Cordoba (Tohoku)	"Does the Recognition of Indigenous Territories Impact Household Economic Situations? Evidence from Western Panama", Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 47, Issue 1, March 2019, Pages 225-237

20th 2017 Details	Winner	Sakai Ando (Columbia)	Size-dependent Policies and Efficient Firm Creation "Size-dependent policies and risky firm creation", Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 197, May 2021.
	Runner-up	Shunya Noda (Stanford)	"Full Surplus Extraction and within-period Ex Post Implementation in Dynamic Environments", Theoretical Economics, Vol. 14, Number 1, January 2019

19th 2016 Details	Winner	Hitoshi Sadakane (Kobe)	"Multistage Information Transmission with Voluntary Monetary Transfer", Theoretical Economics, Volume 18, Number 1, 267–301, 2023
	Winner	Junichi Yamasaki (LSE)	Railroads, Technology Adoption, and Modern Economic Development: Evidence from New Data in the Late 19th - Early 20th Centuries Japan
	Runner-up	Cong Pan (Osaka）	Supplier Encroachment under a Two-Part Tariff Contract and Unobservable Multilateral Contracting
	Runner-up	Masaaki Imaizumi (Tokyo）	An Approximation Method for Discrete Markov Decision Models with a Large State Space

18th 2015 Details	Winner	Akitada Kasahara (Stanford)	Gradual Adjustment and Equilibrium Uniqueness under Noisy Monitoring
	Runner-up	Kazuki Kumashiro (Kobe)	Optimal Funded Pension for Consumers with Heterogeneous Self-Control
	Runner-up	Noriaki Okamoto (Keio）	A Dynamic Auction that Improves the Ausubel Auction "An Efficient Ascending-Bid Auction for Multiple Objects: Comment", American Economic Review, Vol. 108, No. 2, 555-60, February 2018

17th 2014 Details	Winner	Shohei Tamura (Tohoku)	A Characterization of Minimal Impartial Rules for Awarding Prizes “Characterizing minimal impartial rules for awarding prizes,” Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 95 , January 2016 , 41 - 46.
	Winner	Michihito Ando (National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Uppsala University)	"Dreams of Urbanization: Quantitative Case Studies on the Local Impacts of Nuclear Power Facilities using the Synthetic Control Method", Journal of Urban Economics, Vol.85, January 2015, pp.68-85

16th 2013 Details	Winner	Takeshi Ojima (Osaka)	"General Equilibrium Dynamics with Naive and Sophisticated Hyperbolic Consumers in an Overlapping Generations Economy", Economica, May 2017
	Runner-up	Hiromasa Ogawa (Tokyo)	A Good Listener and a Bad Listener
	Runner-up	Masanori Tsuruoka (Tokyo）	The Impact of Scoring Auctions in Public Procurement Auctions
	Runner-up *	Ken Onishi (Northwestern）	Quantity Discounts and Capital Misallocation in the Aircraft and Airline Industries

15th 2012 Details

Winner

Yusuke Mori (Hitotsubashi)

How Can Integration Reduce Inefficiencies Due to Ex Post Adaptation?

14th 2011 Details

Winner

Wataru Tamura (Osaka)

A Theory of Multidimensional Information Disclosure

13rd 2010 Details	Winner	Katsuo Kogure (Tsukuba)	Dictatorships, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance: Evaluating the Impacts of Forced Marriage System under the Pol Pot Regime in Cambodia, 1975-1979
	Winner	Naoaki Minamihashi (Boston)	Destruction of Competition by Competition Law: Evidence from Unbundling Regulation on Fiber-Optic Networks in Japan

12nd 2009 Details	Winner	Shinsuke Tanaka (Boston)	Access to Health Infrastructure and Child Health Development: Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa “Does Abolishing User Fees Lead to Improved Health Status? Evidence from PostApartheid South Africa,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 6(3): 282-312, 2014
	Runner-up	Koichi Ushijima (Tsukuba)	The Effect of the Introduction of a Health Insurance Program on Precautionary Saving Behavior at the Household Level
	Runner-up	Koichi Miyazaki (Pennsylvania State）	“Efficiency and Lack of Commitment in an Overlapping Generations Model with Distributional Shocks,” Japanese Economic Review, 65, 2014, 499-520.

11th 2008 Details	Winner	Hiroaki Miyamoto (Wisconsin)	Technological Progress, On-the-Job Search and Unemployment “Productivity Growth, On-the-Job Search, and Unemployment,” Journal of Monetary Economics. 58(6–8): 666–670, 2011.
	Winner	Hiroko Okudaira (Osaka)	"The Economic Costs of Court Decisions Concerning Dismissals in Japan: Identification by Judge Transfers" International Review of Law and Economics
	Runner-up *	Mitsukuni Nishida (Chicago）	“Estimating a Model of Strategic Network Choice: The Convenience-Store Industry in Okinawa,” Marketing Science. 2015, Vol 34, 20-38.

10th 2007 Details	Winner	Rieko Ishii (Osaka)	Collusion in Repeated Procurement Auction: A Study of Paving Market in Japan
	Runner-up	Fumitoshi Moriya (Hitotsubashi)	The Optimality of Power in Organizations: Power Acquisition Process and Evaluation
	Runner-up *	Junichi Suzuki （Minnesota）	“Land Use Regulation as a Barrier to Entry: Evidence from the Texas Lodging Industry”, International Economic Review, 54 (2): 495-523, 2013.

9th 2006 Details	Winner	Masayuki Kudamatsu (LSE)	Has Democratization Reduced Infant Mortality in Sub-saharan Africa? Evidende from Mother Fixed-effects Estimation “Has Democratization Reduced Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Micro Data”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 10: 1294-1317. 2012.
	Runner-up	Yui Suzuki (Michigan)	“Sovereign Risk and Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Emerging Market Economies,” The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Volume 24, Issue 2, 2015, 247-270.

8th 2005 Details	Winner	Shintaro Yamaguchi (Wisconsin)	“Job Search, Bargaining, and Wage Dynamics,” Journal of Labor Economics, 28(3): 595-631, 2010.
	Runner-up	Kazuya Hyogo (Rochester)	“Subjective random discounting and intertemporal choice,” Journal of Economic Theory, 144(3): 1015-1053, 2009.
	Runner-up	Ayako Kondo (Columbia）	"Does the First Job Really Matter? State Dependency in Employment Status in Japan,” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 21, 379-402, 2007.

7th 2004 Details	Winner	Takayuki Ogawa (Osaka)	Welfare Analysis of Debt Policy during Recessions
	Winner	Junmin Wan (Osaka)	Rational Addiction with an Optimal Inventory: Theory and Evidence from Cigarette Purchases "Rational Addiction with an Optimal Inventory: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Daily and Monthly Purchases," Chapter 2 of "Consumer Casualties: Exploring the Economics of Habit, Information, and Uncertainty in Japan," by Junmin Wan, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 208 pages, November, 2014, Refereed Monograph, pp.728. ISBN 9781137387240

6th 2003 Details	Winner	Ryo Nakajima (New York)	“Measuring Peer Effects on Youth Smoking Behavior”, Review of Economic Studies, 74(3): 897-935, 2007.
	Runner-up	Teruyoshi Koyabashi (Nagoya)	“Optimal monetary policy and the role of hybrid inflation-price-level targets,” Applied Economics, 37(18): 2119-2125, 2005.

5th 2002 Details	Winner	Ken Yamada (Osaka)	“Intra-family transfers in Japan: intergenerational co-residence, distance, and contact,” Applied Economics, 38(16): 1839–1861, 2006.
	Runner-up	Shigeto Kitano (Nagoya)	“Macroeconomic effect of capital controls as a safeguard against the capital inflows problem,” Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 13(3): 233-263, 2004.
	Runner-up	Wataru Kureishi (Osaka）	A Characterization of the Randomized Uniform Rule “Equal Probability for the Best and the Assignment of Identical Indivisible Objects”, Economics Bulletin, 4(8): 1-10, 2007.

4th 2001 Details	Winner	Young-Jun Lee (Nagoya)	Labor Market Segmentation and Long-Term Employment Policy
	Runner-up	Hirokuni Uchiyama (Osaka)	The Index of Aggregate Agency Cost "The index of agency cost and the financial accelerator: the case of Japan", Japan and the World Economy Vol.18/1(2006)1-120
	Runner-up	Daisuke Matsuzaki (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.）	The Effects of a Consumption Tax on Effective Demand under Stagnation, Japanese Economic Review, 2003, 54(1), 101-18

3rd 2000 Details	Winner	Daiji Kawaguchi (Michigan State)	“Human Capital Accumulation of Salaried and Self-Employed Workers”, Labour Economics, 10(1): 55-71, 2003.
	Runner-up	Nobue Suzuki (Hitotsubashi)	Unemployment Insurance with Social Norms
	Runner-up	Hideki Mizukami (Osaka）	“On the Constancy of Bribe-Proof Solutions”, Economic Theory, 22(1): 211-217, 2003.
	Runner-up	Midori Wakabayashi (Osaka）	“Retirement Saving in Japan: With Emphasis on the Impact of Social Security and Retirement Payments,” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 15, 131-159, 2001.

2nd 1999

No prize awarded

1st 1998

No prize awarded

* absence for certain reasons