Presidents’ Prize
2021: “Women artists,” Abby LeBlanc (Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts) and Stephen Sheppard (Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts)
2018: “Artworks without names: an insight into the market for anonymous paintings,” Anne-Sophie Radermecker. Vol. 43, no. 3, September 2019
2016: “Fairness constraints on profit-seeking: Evidence from the German club concert industry,” Hendrik Sonnabend (FernUniversitat, Hagen)
2014: “Time spent on new songs: Word-of-mouth and price effects on teenager consumption,” Noemi Berlin (University of Edinburgh), Anna Bernard (University of Paris-I), & Guillaume Furst (University of Geneva)
2012: “Effects of culture on firm risk-taking: A cross-country and cross-industry analysis,” Roxana Mihet (University of Oxford)
2010: “Clustering does not always benefit the artistic output: New evidence for classical composers,” Karol Jan Borowiecki (Trinity College, Dublin)
2008: “Estimation of demand function for German public theatre: The importance of allocation of leisure time and quality factors for the consumption of performing arts,” Marta Zieba (Trinity College, Dublin)
2006: “The sales effect of word of mouth: A model for creative goods and estimates for novels,” Jonathan Beck (Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin, Humboldt Universit
2004: “Art for the masses? Justification for the public support of the arts in developing countries: Arts festivals in South Africa,” Jeanette Snowball (Rhodes University, South Africa)
2002: Expert Opinion and Gastronomy: The Recipe for Success Veronique Chossat (University of Rheims) & Olivier Gergaud (University of Rheims and University of Paris-I)
2000: “The determinants of artistic innovation: Bringing in the role of organizations,” Xavier Castañer (University of Minnesota) & Lorenzo Campos (iSOCO, Spain)
Pommerehne Prize
2021: “Dining out as cultural trade,’ Joel Waldfogel (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota)
2018: “Measuring changes in subjective well-being from engagement in the arts, culture and sport,” Daniel Wheatley (University of Birmingham) & Craig Bickerton (Nottingham Trent University)
2016: “Prices for superstars can flatten out,” Luc Champarnaud. Vol. 38, no. 4, November
2016: “Digital complements or substitutes? A quasi-field experiment from the Royal National Theatre,” Hasan Bakhshi & David Throsby. Vol. 38, no. 1, February 2014
2014: “Selling less of more? The impact of digitization on record companies,” Marc Bourreau, Michel Gensollen, Francois Moreau, & Patrick Waelbroeck. Vol. 37, no. 3, August 2013
2012: “The impact of the Droit de Suite in the UK: An empirical analysis,” Chanont Banternghansa & Kathryn Graddy. Vol. 35, no. 2, May 2011
2012: “Product differentiation and film-programming choice: Do first-run movie theatres show the same films?,” Darlene C. Chisholm, Margaret S. McMillan, & George Norman. Vol. 34, no. 2, May 20122010
2010: “Art versus commerce in the movie industry: A two-path model of motion picture success,” Morris Holbrook & Michela Addis. Vol. 32, no. 2, June 2008
2008: “Distributors and film critics: Does it take two to tango?,” S. Abraham Ravid, John K. Wald, & Suman Basuroy. Vol. 30, no. 3, December 20062006
2006: “Employing travel time to compare the value of competing cultural organizations,” Jaap Boter, Jan Rouwendal, & Michel Wedel, Vol. 29, no. 1, February 2005
2004: “Using stated-preference questions to investigate variations in willingness to pay for preserving marble monuments: Classic heterogeneity, random parameters, and mixture models”, Edward Morey & Kathleen Greer Rossmann. Vol. 27, no. 3-4, November 2003
2002: “Efficiency and inefficiency in the ranking in competitions: The case of the Queen Elisabeth Music Contest,” Herbert Glejser & Bruno Heyndels. Vol. 25, no. 2, May 2001.
Young Researchers Workshop Best Paper Award
2021: “Intermediary liability and trade in follow-on innovation,” Alexander Cuntz (World Intentional Property Organization) and Matthias Sahli (World Intentional Property Organization)