In the 47th EBES Conference, John P. Rust Best Paper Award went to

“Endogenous Information Carrier Technology” by Danxia Xie from Institute of Economics, Tsinghua University, China and Buyuan Yang from Central University of Finance and Economics, China.

We would like to thank to Springer Nature for their support to the Best Paper Award.

Runner-up paper is “Growth Effects of Public Investment and Public Consumption: The Role of the Business Cycle, Fiscal Space, and Efficiency” by Amat Adarov from World Bank, U.S.A.; Benedict Clements from Universidad de Las Américas, Ecuador; and João Tovar Jalles from University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Third paper is “Gender Risk Gap: Evidence from the German Reunification” by Charly Gräfe from University of Münster, Germany.