To promote the research and analysis of Latvia's and euro area's macroeconomic issues by involving the most talented young economists in this work, Latvijas Banka has announced the annual Competition of Student Scientific Research Papers.
Participation is open to citizens and non-citizens of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia as well as foreigners who at the time of the competition are registered as students of higher education institutions accredited in the Baltic States, enrolled in Bachelor's or Master's degree programmes, as well as to the students of the Baltic States studying abroad. Latvijas Banka organises the competition already for the 20th time.
The submitted papers shall discuss subjects currently relevant for the Baltic and euro area economies (suggestions for topics and a list of the previous years' award-winning papers on our website).
The competition papers shall be submitted to Latvijas Banka from 16 May to 30 May 2022.
The award-winning papers will be published on Latvijas Banka's website macroeconomics.lv, their authors will receive money awards (including EUR 2000 to the Excellence Award-winning paper, EUR 1500 to the first-prize-winning paper, EUR 1250 to the two second-prize-winning papers each and EUR 1000 to the three third-prize-winning papers each; in the case of co-authored papers, the award shall be divided among the authors).
More information: macroeconomics.lv/For students