The Ashot Mkrtchyan Award, launched in 2024, is presented by the Central Bank of Armenia in memory of Ashot Mkrtchyan, a former Central Bank of Armenia board member and longtime supporter of the Armenian Economic Association. The award recognizes the best paper in macroeconomics presented at the AEA Annual Meetings, honoring Mkrtchyan’s commitment to research that informs real-world economic policy in Armenia.
2026 Winner
Björn Richter (Nova School of Business and Economics), Foreign Demand for Safety and Macroeconomic Instability (with Madalen Castells, Dmitry Kuvshinov and Victoria Vanasco)
Past Winners
2025 Giulio Tarquini (La Sapienza University of Rome), The Enduring Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy
2024 Marta Cota (CERGE-EI), Financial Skills and Search in the Mortgage Market