Canadian Economics Association

Canadian
Economics
Association

Association
canadienne
d'économique

John Rae Prize

The CEA offers the Rae Prize every two years. The Prize is intended to recognize research excellence in the recent past and is not a life-time award. The Prize has a cash value of $2000.

The Prize has been named after John Rae, born in Scotland in 1796, who did most of his work in Canada and was a genuine precursor of endogenous growth theory.

Past Winners:

1994	Larry Epstein, University of Toronto and Jean-Marie Dufour, Université de Montréal
1996	Martin Browning, McMaster University
1998	Thomas Lemieux, Université de Montréal
2000	Dan Trefler, University of Toronto, and Shouyong Shi, Queen's University
2002	Mike Peters, University of Toronto
2003	Walter Bossert, Université de Montréal

Criteria: The Prize is awarded to the Canadian economist with the best research record during the last five years. The Committee may decide what constitutes "best research record" and may also interpret "five years" with a modest amount of flexibility. In practice, Canadians working outside of Canada have been excluded from consideration.

Committee: A three person Committee makes the decision. The Committee is appointed by the President of the CEA in consultation with other members of the CEA Executive. There is no explicit exclusion of the CEA Executive from the Committee but in practice they have not been members of the Committees.

Nominations: Nominations are open but in practice the majority of nominations come from the Chairs of Economics Departments. Chairs are asked to nominate and to provide CV's for those nominated.