The IEA makes a number of awards each year at the annual conference. A description of each prize and recent prize winners are listed below.

Conniffe Prize

The Conniffe Prize (€1,000) is awarded to the best paper by a young economist (or early career economist) presented at the IEA is named in honour of Denis Conniffe, who was well known to many people in the economics community in Ireland for not only his expertise across a wide range of interests from economic theory, statistics and econometrics, but also for his willingness to engage with students and colleagues. The Conniffe Prize is awarded for the best paper by a young or early career economist. To be eligible for this prize, all authors on the submission must be either under 30 years of age or be within 3 years of completion of their PhD. Authors applying for consideration for this prize should include a short summary of the paper with their conference submission.

Past winners
2023 Manuel Lago (UCD)
2022 Barra McCarthy (CBI)
2021 Diego Zambiasi (UCD)

Novartis Prize

The Novartis Prize (€500) is awarded to the best paper in health economics presented at the IEA conference. The award is kindly sponsored by Novartis. All conference participants are eligible to apply as long as the paper focuses on topics in health economics. Authors applying for consideration for this prize should include a short summary of the paper with their conference submission.

Past winners
2023 Jane Bourke (UCC), Stephen Roper, Maria Wishart, Vicki Belt (Warwick Business School), Stavroula Leka (University of Lancaster), Juliet Hassard, Louise Thomson, Holly Blake (Nottingham University)
2022 Irene Mosca (NUIM) and Anne Nolan (ESRI)
2021 Edward Henry and John Cullinan (NUI Galway)

ISWE Prize

The ISWE Prize (€500) is awarded by the Irish Society for Women in Economics to the best paper presented by a female economist at the IEA annual conference. All conference participants identifying as female are eligible to apply. Authors applying for consideration for this prize should include a short summary of the paper with their conference submission.

Past winners
2023 Martina Zanella (TCD)
2022 Eugenia Frezza (TCD)

Brendan Walsh Prize

The Walsh Prize (€1,000) is awarded in honour of Brendan Walsh for the best paper published in the Economic and Social Review in the previous year. The winning paper is chosen by a sub-committee of the Economic and Social Studies Council.

Past winners
2023 Jane Dooley (Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications) and David Madden (UCD)
2022 Brian Nolan (University of Oxford) and Bertrand Maître (ESRI)
2021 Judith Delaney (ESRI) and Paul Devereux (UCD)