External CEBI member Stefanie Stantcheva recieves the John Bates Clark medal
The John Bates Clark medal is one of the most prestigious and eagerly anticipated AEA awards, the John Bates Clark Medal is awarded annually each April (formerly biennially from 1947–2009) to that American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. If there is a significant body of joint work, the Clark Medal may be awarded jointly to two recipients. Established as an American prize, it is sufficient that the candidate works in the United States at the time of the award and US citizenship is not required.
Stefanie Stantcheva has made fundamental contributions to the field of public economics, using a wide range of tools to understand the interaction of government taxation and private behavior. She has applied mechanism design to the analysis of optimal tax policy in dynamic settings, studied empirically the effects of taxes and subsidies on the decisions of innovators, and employed surveys and experiments to study how people think about redistribution, tax policy and other issues. Her portfolio of work provides important insights that inform policy debates on the practical design of tax systems.
You can read more about the motivation for awarding the medal to Stefanie Stantcheva here