sector, academia, and business. Awards are well visible, can raise the recipients' intrinsic motivation and creativity, and …

Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This … paper investigates whether a specific, yet important, award in economics, the John Bates Clark Medal, raises recipients …

. (2008), Happiness: A Revolution in Economics, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. -- Frey, Bruno S. and Matthias Benz (2008), 'Being … Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation', Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2, 139-60. -- Frey, Bruno S. and Alois … Stutzer (2002a), Happiness and Economics: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Well-Being, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton …

organizational theory, innovation economics, and industrial organization should therefore be critically examined. -- theory of the …

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …