University of California

All-University of California Group in Economic History

Awards

Graduate Student Honors

 

Business History Conference Herman E. Krooss Prize for best dissertation in Business History

2009: Michael Easterly (History, UCLA) Your Job is Your Credit: Creating a Market for Loans to Salaried Employees in New York City, 1885-1920

Nevins Prize of the Economic History Association for best dissertation in North American Economic History

1997: Mark V. Siegler (Economics, UC Davis) Real Output and Business Cycle Volatility, 1869-1993: U.S. Experience in International Perspective

1994: John Majewski (History, UCLA)  Commerce and Community: Internal Improvements in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1780-1860

1982: Sanford Jacoby (History, UC Berkeley)  The Origins of Internal labor Markets in American Manufacturing Firms, 1910-1940

Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for Best Dissertation in non-US Economic History

2005: Drew Keeling (History, UC Berkeley) The Business of Transatlantic Migration between Europe and the USA, 1900-1914

2003: Petra Moser (Economics, UC Berkeley) Determinants of Innovation: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World Fairs

1993: Chi-kong Lai (History, UC Davis) China's First Modern Corporation and the State: Officials, Merchants and Resource Allocation in the China Merchant's Steam Navigation Company, 1872-1902