Prizes
The Charles Heber Dickerman Memorial Prize
Awarded to one or more seniors who have presented the best departmental essay.
2018
Saul Downie
Martin Lim
2017
Anna Russo
2016
Edward King
2015
Yuchen Liu
2014
Simeng Huang
2013
Natalia Emanuel
The Ellington Prize
Awarded to one or more seniors who have presented the best departmental essay in the field of finance.
2018
Neeraj Shekhar
2017
Alicia Borga Alverez
2016
Avery Schwartz
2015
Samuel Z. Shleifer
2014
Kevin Liu
2013
David Hu
The Louis F. Laun Award
Awarded to a graduating Economics major with an outstanding course record in all courses taken in Yale College during the first seven terms.
2018
Benjamin Sampson
2017
Michael Wang
2016
Michael S. Fogarty
2015
Mendy Yang
2014
Geoffrey Kocher
Yingqi Tan
2013
Mo gong
Hesu Yang
The Ronald Meltzer/Cornelia Awdziewicz Economic Award
Awarded to one or two runner-up(s) for the Dickerman Prize.
2018
Kevin Huang
Jinchen Zhu
2017
Umme-e-Amen Jalal
Neha Sahai Anand
2016
Anthony Tokman
Darien Lee
2015
Ashley Wu
Kelly Hsu
2014
Michael Lei
Shuyan Li
Urvi Nopany
2013
Thomas Swartz
Erica Sega
The William M. Massee Prize
Awarded to a graduating Economics major with an outstanding record in Economic courses in the first seven terms of Yale College.
2018
Anshu Chen
2017
Zheng Xiang Toh
2016
Eugene K. Kim
2015
Evan Millstein
2014
Maren Hopkins
2013
Ian Hoffman
David Carel
Tobin Scholars
The Department of Economics has established an annual prize for outstanding performance in the core theory courses in economics: intermediate microeconomics (Econ 121 and Econ 125), intermediate macroeconomics (Econ 122 and Econ 126), and econometrics (Econ 131 and Econ 136). This prize will be awarded in each academic year to up to four senior majors in Economics or Economics and Mathematics who have excelled in these courses. The prizewinners are Tobin Scholars — to honor James Tobin, a prominent member of the Department of Economics at Yale from 1950 to 2002 and the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1981. For more history on the prize, please see this article.
2017 Tobin Scholars
- Justin Katz, Economics & Mathematics, Ezra Stiles College
- Jason Gaitonde, Economics & Mathematics, Morse College
- Joyce Koltisko, Economics, Berkeley College
- Yicong Shen, Economics & Mathematics, Grace Hopper College
2016 Tobin Scholars
- Gregory (Greg) Cameron, Economics, Saybrook College
- Michael Chen Wang, Economics, Jonathan Edward College
- Anna Elizabeth Russo, Economics, Berkeley College
- Trevor Williams, Economics & Mathematics, Calhoun College
2015 Tobin Scholars
- Vivath Ly, Economics & Mathematics, Branford College
- Eugene Kim, Economics, Berkeley College
- Jonathan Lam, Electrical Engineering & Economics, Morse College
- Darien Lee, Economics & Chemistry, Branford College
2014 Tobin Scholars
- Anna Demaree, Economics, Pierson College
- Michael Hopkins, Economics & Computer Science, Saybrook College
- Kelly Hsu, Economics, Pierson College
- Jeremy Hutton, Economics, Pierson College
2013 Tobin Scholars
- Leon Zhang, Economics and Mathematics, Trumbull College
- Nicholas Alers, Economics, Davenport College
- Sherif Disi, Economics, Timothy Dwight College
- Maren Hopkins, Economics & Mechanical Engineering, Davenport College
2012 Inaugural Tobin Scholars
- Ian Hoffman, Economics and Mathematics, Berkeley College
- Jacob Effron, Economics, Silliman College
- Erica Segall, Economics, Morse College
- Christopher Vasseur, Economics, Jonathan Edwards College