For the first time, the Standing Committee on Public Economics awarded its Dissertation Award, supported by the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations (BDA), for an outstanding dissertation. The prize was conferred upon Daniel Weishaar for his dissertation “Essays in Public Economics: Multidimensional Inequalities, Fairness Preferences, and Policy Instruments.”

The Standing Committee on Public Economics has awarded the 2026 Schmölders Foundation Prize to Emanuel Hansen of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for his paper “Pareto-improving tax reforms and the Earned Income Tax Credit."

The standing field committee public economics meets annually to discuss new research and activities of the committee.

The standing field committee public economics will award two prizes at the 2026 annual conference

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The standing committee public economics awards the 2023 prize of the Schmölders foundation to Arthur Seibold, University of Mannheim, for his work "Reference points for retirement behavior: Evidence from German pension discontinuities".