The Abramson Awards
Each year since 1986, The Editorial Board of Business
Economics reviews
the feature articles published in Business Economics in the four issues
ending in July of that year and votes to select those considered exceptional.
Upon their recommendation, the Board of Directors of NABE presents to
the authors the Abramson Award for the best article and Abramson scrolls
for outstanding articles. These awards commemorate Adolph Abramson, the
founder and first President of NABE.
Past Winners of the Abramson Awards
1986
| Abramson Award: |
T.M. Rybczynski |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Sidney L. Jones |
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J. Steven Landefeld and Kan H. Young |
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A. Nicholas Filippello |
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W. Lee Hoskins |
1987
| Abramson Award: |
John W. Kendrick |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Michael J. Boskin |
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Edward H. Boss, Jr. |
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Mickey D. Levy |
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Geoffrey H. Moore |
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Marina v. N. Whitman |
1988
| Abramson Award: |
Paul Krugman |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Peter L. Bernstein |
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J. Steven Landefeld |
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James J. O'Leary |
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Kan H. Young and Ann M. Lawson |
1989
| Abramson Award: |
Rudolph G. Penner |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Thomas E. Swanstrom |
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Paul Ryscavage |
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J. Fred Weston |
1990
| Abramson Award: |
Victor Zarnowitz |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Marc Hendriks |
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Murray Weidenbaum |
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J. Fred Weston and Kwang S. Chung |
1991
| Abramson Award: |
J. Fred Weston |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Lyle E. Gramley |
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George N. Hatsopoulos |
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Francis H. Schott |
1992
| Abramson Award: |
Dennis K. Hoover |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Peter L. Bernstein |
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Alan S. Blinder |
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John W. Kendrick |
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J. Fred Weston |
1993
| Abramson Award: |
Daniel J. Meckstroth |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Dan M. Bechter and Steven Stanley |
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Juan R. Espana |
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Walter E. Hoadley |
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Harvey Rosenblum and Robert T. Clair |
1994
| Abramson Award: |
Douglas N. Thompson and Gary K. Ottosen |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
James W. Henderson and Samuel L. Seaman |
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J. Fred Weston and Yehning Chen |
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Erland Heginbotham |
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Michael Ulan |
1995
| Abramson Award: |
Donald R. Anderson |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Thomas P. Egan |
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Gerald L. Musgrave |
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Herbert Stein |
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Thomas W. Synnott III |
1996
| Abramson Award: |
Richard D. Rippe |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
John J. Casson |
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Robert T. Parry |
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Thomas W. Synnott III |
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Charles Wolf, Jr. |
1997
| Abramson Award: |
Francis H. Schott |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
David W. Berson |
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Albert E. DePrince, Jr. |
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Everett M. Ehrlich |
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William F. Ford |
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Alan P. Murray |
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Eileen Neely |
1998
| Abramson Award: |
Van Doorn Ooms |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Donald Anderson |
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Guy D. Billoud |
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Roger Chen |
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Richard D. Rippe |
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J. Fred Weston, |
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Piotr S. Jawien, and E. James Levitas |
1999
| Abramson Award: |
Henry Kaufman |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Victor Zarnowitz |
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Dick Rippe |
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Jack Triplett |
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Duncan Meldrum |
2000
| Abramson Award |
Jian-Chiu Han, "Equity Valuation Cannot Outgrow the Economy
Over the Long Run" (PDF 45K) |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Peter L. Bernstein, "Facing the Consequences", January
2000 (PDF 36K) |
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Charles W. Bischoff, Halefom Belay, and In-Bong Kang, "Bayesian
VAR Forecasts Fail to Live Up to Their Promise", July 2000 (PDF
57 K) |
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Albert E. De Prince, Jr. and William F. Ford, "A Primer on
Internet Economics", October 1999 (PDF
69K) |
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Duncan Meldrum, "Country Risk and Foreign Direct Investment",
January 2000 ( PDF 57K) |
2001
| Abramson Award |
Richard C. Koo, Nomura Research Institute
"The Japanese Economy in Balance Sheet Recession" (PDF,
53 K) |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Hubert Fromlet, Swedbank and Blekinge Institute of Technology
"Behavioral Finance-Theory and Practical Application"
(PDF, 35K) |
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Rudolph G. Penner, The Urban Institute
"The Uncertainty of Budget Estimates" (PDF,
65K) |
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Albert M. Wojnilower, Monitor-Clipper Partners and Craig Drill
Capital
"Life Without Treasury Securities" (PDF,
35K) |
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2002
| Abramson Award |
Kevin J. Stiroh, Information Technology and the U.S. Productivity
Revival: A Review of the Evidence. The closer one looks, the
more persuasive it is.
(PDF, 66K) |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Robert A. Eisenbeis, Tao Zha, and Daniel Waggoner, Evaluating
Wall Street Journal Survey Forecasters: A Multivariate Approach
(PDF, 87 K) |
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Michael Bordo, Globalization in Historical Perspective: Our
era is not as unique as we may think, and current trends are
not irreversible
(PDF, 65 K) |
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Howard Kunreuther, The Role of Insurance in Managing Extreme
Events: Implications for Terrorism Coverage
(PDF, 94 K) |
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2003
| Abramson Award |
Albert DePrince, Middle Tennessee
State University
“Assessing the Term Structure of Expected Inflation Using Treasury Inflation-Protected
Securities” in the January
2003 issue |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton
University
“ Churchill’s Dictum and the Next New Thing in American Health Care” in
the July 2003 issue |
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J. Paul Horne, Independent
Market Economist, formerly with Salomon Smith Barney
Albert Merlin, Incopar (Intl Consulting
Partners), France
“ Does Enronitis Threaten the Dollar and the Economy?” in the October
2002 issue of Business Economics. |
2004
| Abramson Award |
Catherine L. Mann, Insitute for International Economics, "Managing Exchange Rates: Achievement of Global Re-balancing or Evidence of Global Co-Dependency?" in the July 2004 issue of Business Economics. |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Ray Fair, Yale University, "Testing for a New Economy in the 1990s" in the January 2004 issue of Business Economics. |
2005
| Abramson Award |
Dr. Ted H. Chu, Senior Economist, General Motors Corporation, for “The Chinese RMB: Its Value, Its Peg, and Its Future” published in the April 2005 issue of Business Economics. |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Dr. James F. Nieberding, Senior Managing Economist, LECG LLC, and Dr. James Langenfeld, LECG LLC, for “The Benefits of Free Trade to U.S. Consumers” in the July 2005 issue of Business Economics. |
2006
| Abramson Award |
John E. Silvia, chief economist, Wachovia Bank N.A., for “Domestic Implications of a Global Labor Market” published in the July 2006 issue of Business Economics. |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Norman Morin and John J. Stevens, senior economist and economist, respectively, Federal Reserve Board, “Diverging Measures of Capacity Utilization: An Explanation” published in the October 2005 issue of Business Economics. |
2007
| Abramson Award |
Walter McManus for his article “The Link Between Gasoline Prices and Vehicle Sales” in the January 2007 issue of Business Economics. |
| Abramson Scrolls: |
Matthew Higgins, Thomas Klitgaard, and Cédric Tille, “Borrowing Without Debt? Understanding the U.S. International Investment Position” also in the January 2007 issue, and Jonathan McCarthy and Charles Steindel, “Housing Activity and Consumer Spending” in the April 2007 issue. |