Acadia University’s Burc Kayahan Wins Major Award for Economists: Kenneth J. Arrow Junior Prize

Congratulations go to Acadia Professor Burc Kayahan and his co-authors Miana Plesca (University of Guelph) and Vincenzo Caponi (Ryerson University). Their paper, "The Impact of Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations on Training Decisions" published in The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, has been selected as the winner of this year's Kenneth J. Arrow Prize for Junior Economists. Berkeley Electronic Press (BEP) awards this prize every year for the very best work published in their economics journals.  

The Arrow Prizes for Junior and Senior Economists are named in honor of Kenneth J. Arrow, who won the Nobel Prize in 1972 for his pioneering contributions to general equilibrium theory and welfare theory. Begun in 2003, the Arrow Prizes recognize two papers published each year in BEP economics journals that make an outstanding contribution to the field. The award carries an honorarium and an announcement to the BEP network of nearly 200,000 economists.

To read the winning papers for both the Junior and Senior Arrow Prizes, please visit www.bepress.com/arrow.html.