Harvard Ph.D. Student wins Klaus Liebscher Award

Ph.D. student, Tarek Hassan, of the Harvard University Department of Economics has won the Klaus Liebscher Award from the Oesterreichische Nationalbank of Austria for the best paper on Monetary Unions.  His paper is entitled "Country Size, Currency Unions, and International Asset Returns". Tarek will travel to Vienna on May 14 to accept the award.

The Award was established in 2005 on the 65^th birthday of Governor Klaus Liebscher to honor his commitment for Austria’s participation in European monetary union and to the cause of European integration.. The award is one of two offered every year for outstanding scientific policy-oriented papers on European monetary union and European integration issues written by young economists from EU member or candidate countries.

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