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Winners of the ECO Student Competitions

Mon, 15 Mar 2010

We are pleased to announce the winners of the ECO Student Video and Essay Competitions.

The results of the competition are:

  • The best Video Clip - Shane King and Josh Clift (£1500 prize). 
  • The best Postgraduate Essay - Sunil Kumar "Economic Theory and the promise of Behavioural Approaches" (£1000 prize).
  • The best Third Year Essay - Shane King "Should Competition Policy be relaxed during the current financial crisis?" (£1000).
  • The best Second Year Essay -  Jonathan Shortman "What are Hedge Funds? How competitive are they?  Do you think they are a help or a hindrance in driving the economy out of the recession?" (£1000).
  • The best First Year Essay - joint winners - Emma Garrett "How US President Barack Obama can use the promise of behavioural economics to change the United States of America" (£1000) and
  • Alexander Haines "Is a monetary incentive enough to change the behaviour of people when tackling society's problems of smoking and alcohol addition, obesity and lack of blood donations?" (£1000). 

These essays will all appear in the forthcoming "Norwich Economic Papers" along with those essays submitted by Michael Brock,Richard Ayre, Adeel Saleem, Ben Angus, Alex Karakostas and Fabio Galeotti.

Congratulations to everyone!
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