This year’s Carl Menger Prize for Economics has been awarded to economist Benjamin Moll (photo: left). The prize was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik in Berlin. After obtaining his PhD at the University of Chicago, Mr Moll, a German economist, initially taught and did research at Princeton before transferring to the London School of Economics in 2019. In his research, Mr Moll addresses, amongst other things, the incorporation of firm and consumer heterogeneity into macroeconomic models and, within the framework of these models, studies the various interactions between inequality and macroeconomics.

The Carl Menger Prize is awarded jointly every two years by the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Swiss National Bank in recognition of excellence in research in the areas of monetary economics and monetary policy. It comes with prize money of €20,000.