# Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation

The Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation is a charitable foundation whose aims are to promote Finnish research in economics and medicine and to maintain and support educational and research facilities in Finland. It was established in 1954 by the wife of Yrjö Jahnsson, Hilma Jahnsson. It supports the award of the Yrjö Jahnsson Award and Yrjö Jahnsson Lecture series. These lectures have been delivered by noteworthy economists since 1963. 10 of the Yrjö Jahnsson Lecture series scholars have gone on to win the Nobel prize in economics, making it a top predictor for future recipients.

## The Yrjö Jahnsson Lecture series

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* 1963 Kenneth J. Arrow Aspects of the Theory of Risk-Bearing
* 1967 Assar Lindbeck Monetary-Fiscal Analysis and General Equilibrium
* 1968 L.R. Klein An Essay on the Theory of Economic Prediction
* 1970 Harry G. Johnson The Two-Sector Model of General Equilibrium
* 1973 John Hicks The Crisis in Keynesian Economics
* 1976 Edmond Malinvaud The Theory of Unemployment Reconsidered
* 1978 James Tobin Asset Accumulation and Economic Activity
* 1980 János Kornai Growth, Shortage and Efficiency
* 1983 Jacques H. Drèze Labour Management, Contracts and Capital Markets
* 1985 Robert E. Lucas Models of Business Cycles
* 1987 Amartya Sen Rational Behaviour
* 1990 A.B. Atkinson Poverty in Europe
* 1992 Bengt Holmström Models of the Firm
* 1996 Paul R. Krugman Economic Theory and the East Asia Miracle
* 1999 Hans-Werner Sinn The New Systems Competition
* 2002 Alvin Roth The Timing of Transactions: Strategic behavior, and market performance
* 2005 Ricardo Caballero Macroeconomics and Restructuring in the Global Economy
* 2007 Peter Diamond Thinking about Taxes
* 2010 Tim Besley, Torsten Persson Pillars of Prosperity: The political economics of state building
* 2012 John A. List Using Field Experiments in Economics
* 2015 Nicholas Bloom, John van Reenen Management and the Wealth of Nations
* 2019 Daron Acemoglu, The Future of Work
* 2023 Janet Currie, Child Health as Human Capital and The Environment and Children’s Health

## Yrjö Jahnsson Award

The Yrjö Jahnsson Award is a biennial award given by the Finnish Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation to European economists under the age of 45 "who have made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to the study of economics in Europe." The selection committee, chaired by the president of the EEA, consists of five members, four nominated by the European Economic Association (EEA) and one by the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation. The selection committee consults all EEA fellows individually and uses their responses together with their own judgment to form a short list.

### Recipients

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| Year | Medalists | Institution (at time of receipt) | Alma mater (PhD) | Nationality | Nobel Prize |
| 1993 | Jean-Jacques Laffont | Toulouse School of Economics | Harvard University | France | |
| 1993 | Jean Tirole | Toulouse School of Economics | MIT | France | 2014 |
| 1995 | Richard Blundell | University College London | London School of Economics | UK | |
| 1997 | Torsten Persson | University of Stockholm | University of Stockholm | Sweden | |
| 1999 | Nobuhiro Kiyotaki | London School of Economics | Harvard University | Japanese | |
| 1999 | John Moore | London School of Economics | London School of Economics | UK | |
| 2001 | Philippe Aghion | University College London | Harvard University | France | |
| 2001 | Guido Tabellini | Bocconi University | UCLA | Italy | |
| 2003 | Mathias Dewatripont | Université libre de Bruxelles | Harvard University | Belgium | |
| 2005 | Tim Besley | London School of Economics | Oxford University | UK | |
| 2005 | Jordi Galí | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | MIT | Spain | |
| 2007 | Gilles Saint-Paul | Paris School of Economics | MIT | France | |
| 2009 | John van Reenen | London School of Economics | University College London | UK | |
| 2009 | Fabrizio Zilibotti | University of Zurich | London School of Economics | Italy | |
| 2011 | Armin Falk | University of Bonn | University of Zurich | Germany | |
| 2013 | Hélène Rey | London Business School | London School of Economics | France | |
| 2013 | Thomas Piketty | Paris School of Economics | London School of Economics | France | |
| 2015 | Botond Kőszegi | Central European University | MIT | Hungary | |
| 2017 | Ran Spiegler | Tel-Aviv University | Tel-Aviv University | Israel | |
| 2017 | Michèle Tertilt | University of Mannheim | University of Minnesota | Germany | |
| 2019 | Oriana Bandiera | London School of Economics | Boston College | Italy | |
| 2019 | Imran Rasul | University College London | London School of Economics | UK | |
| 2021 | Ricardo Reis | London School of Economics | Harvard University | Portugal | |
| 2021 | Silvana Tenreyro | London School of Economics | Harvard University | Argentina | |
| 2023 | Jan De Loecker | K.U. Leuven | K.U. Leuven | Belgium | |
| 2023 | Kalina Manova | UCL | Harvard University | Bulgaria | |