Winners
| 2025 | Fossil Fuel Subsidy Inventories vs. Net Carbon Prices | Sonja Peterson Kiel Institute for the World Economy Jens Böhm Kiel Institute for the World Economy |
| 2023 | The Distribution of Energy Efficiency and Regional Inequality | Puja Singhal Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Andrew Hobbs University of San Francisco |
| 2022 | Stranded Asset Risk and Political Uncertainty: The Impact of the Coal Phase-Out on the German Coal Industry | Miriam Breitenstein & Carl-Philipp Anke Technische Universität Dresden Duc Khuong Nguyen IPAG Business School and Vietnam National University Thomas Walther Utrecht University and Technische Universität Dresden |
| 2021 | Effects of Carbon Mitigation on Co-pollutants at Industrial Facilities in Europe | Klara Sickl & Simon Sturn WU Vienna University of Economics & Business James Boyce University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 2020 | Do Localities Benefit from Natural Resource Extraction? | Dakshina G. De Silva and Anita R. Schiller Lancaster University Robert P. McComb Texas Tech University |
| 2019 | From Residential Energy Demand to Fuel Poverty: Income-induced Non-linearities in the Reactions of Households to Energy Price Fluctuations | Dorothee Charlier IAE Savoie Mont-Blanc – IREGE Sondes Kahouli Université de Bretagne Occidentale |
| 2018 | On the Effectiveness of Feed-in Tariffs in the Development of Solar Photovoltaics | Elbert Dijkgraaf Erasmus University Rotterdam Tom P. van Dorp Solarplaza International BV Emiel Maasland Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 2017 | Designing Compensation for Distributed Solar Generation: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? | David P. Brown University of Alberta David E.M. Sappington University of Florida |
| 2016 | The Visible Hand: Ensuring Optimal Investment in Electric Power Generation | Thomas-Olivier Leautier Toulouse School of Economics |
| 2015 | The Future of Long-term LNG Contracts | Peter R. Hartley Rice University |
| 2014 | Unilateral Climate Policy: Can OPEC Resolve the Leakage Problem? | Christoph Boehringer and Jan Schneider University of Oldenburg Knut Einar Rosendahl Norwegian University of Life Science |
| 2013 | How Competitive is Cross-border Trade of Electricity? Theory and Evidence from European Electricity Markets | Georg Gebhardt University of Ulm Felix Hoffler University of Cologne |
| 2012 | Storing Wind for a Rainy Day: What Kind of Electricity Does Denmark Export? | Richard Green Imperial College London Nicholas Vasilakos University of East Anglia |
| 2011 | Econometric Estimation of Spatial Patterns in Electricity Prices | Stratford Douglas West Virginia University Julia Popova New York Independent System Operators |
| 2010 | The Value of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles as Grid Resources | Ramteen Sioshansi Ohio State University Paul Denholm National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| 2009 | Demand Subsidies Versus R&D: Comparing the Uncertain Impacts of Policy on a Pre-commercial Low-carbon Energy Technology | Gregory F. Nemet University of Wisconsin Erin Baker University of Massachusetts |
| 2008 | What Drives Natural Gas Prices? | Stephen P. A. Brown and Mine K. Yucel Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |
| 2007 | The Efficiency and Robustness of Allowance Banking in the U.S. Acid Rain Program | A. Denny Ellerman MIT Juan-Pablo Montero Universidad Catolica de Chile |
| 2006 | Seven Centuries of Energy Services: The Price and Use of Light in the United Kingdom (1300-2000) | Roger Fouquet University of the South Pacific Peter J.G. Pearson Imperial College London |
| 2005 | Transporting Russian Gas to Western Europe — A Simulation Analysis | Christian von Hirschhausen Dresden University of Technology Berit Meinhart Berlin University of Technology Ferdinand Pavel DIW Berlin |
| 2004 | Demand-Side Management and Energy Efficiency in the United States | David W. Loughran and Jonathan Kulick RAND |
| 2003 | Trade Liberalization and Carbon Leakage | Onno Kuik and Reyer Gerlagh Institute for Environmental Studies |
| 2002 | The Asymmetric Effects of Changes in Price and Income on Energy and Oil Demand | Dermot Gately New York University Hillard G. Huntington Stanford University |
| 2001 | Economic Development and End-Use Energy Demand | Kenneth B. Medlock III El Paso Merchant Ronald Soligo Rice University |
| 2000 | Customers' Choice Among Retail Energy Suppliers: The Willingness-to-Pay for Service Attributes | Andrew A. Goett and Kathleen Hudson AAG Associates Kenneth E. Train University of California, Berkeley |
| 1999 | Fuel Economy Rebound Effect for U.S. Household Vehicles | David L. Greene Oak Ridge National Laboratory James R. Kahn and Robert C. Gibson University of Tennessee |
| 1998 | Short Term Energy Forecasting with Neural Networks | Stuart Mc Menamin and Frank Monforte Regional Economic Research, Inc. |
| 1997 | CO2 Emissions Limits: Economic Adjustments and the Distribution of Burdens | William Hogan Harvard University Richard Eckaus, A. Denny Ellerman, Henry Jacoby, Ronald Prinn, David Reiner and Zili Yang MIT |
| 1996 | The Welfare Effects of Raising Household Energy Prices in Poland | Caroline L. Freund and Christine Wallich Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System |
| 1995 | On the Cost of Lost Production from Russian Oil Fields | James L Smith Southern Methodist University |
| 1994 | Tradable Cumulative CO2 Permits and Global Warming Control | Richard F. Kosobud University of Illinois at Chicago Thomas Daly and David W. South Argonne National Laboratory Kevin G. Quinn St. Norbert College, DePere, Wisconsin Rolf Golombek and Jan Bråten Foundation for Research in Economics and Business Administration, Oslo, Norway |
| 1993 | Global CO2 Agreements: A Cost-Effective Approach | Snorre Kverndokk Statistics Norway |
| 1992 | What Does a Negawatt Really Cost? Evidence from Utility Conservation Programs | Paul Joskow and Donald Marron MIT |
| 1991 | Oil Production in the Lower 48 States: Economic, Geological, and Institutional Determinants | Cutler Cleveland and Robert Kaufman Boston University |
| 1990 | Traditional Energy Programs and the Theory of Open Access Forest Resources | Harry R. Clarke LaTrobe University Australia and Ram M. Shrestha Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand |
| 1989 | Comparative Energy Policy: The Economics of Nuclear Power in Japan and the United States | Peter Navarro University of California, Irvine |