Sir Anthony Atkinson (Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and Nuffield College, Oxford; and the London School of Economics and Political Science) and Benjamin Moll (Department of Economics, Princeton University) are the winners of the 2015 EIB Prize for excellence in economic and social research.

Professor Atkinson was awarded the EUR 40 000 Outstanding Contribution Award and Professor Moll the EUR 25 000 Young Economist Award (under the age of 40) in recognition of the academic excellence, work published and impact on public policy of their research on the topic of this year’s prize: the “Economics of Inequality and Economic Growth”.

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