Announcements

The most recent announcements about WINIR, its activities, or the Journal of Institutional Economics are listed below. Watch this space of updates.

2025 Reviewers of the Year announced

The winners of the Reviewer of the Year Prize for 2025, awarded by the editors of the Journal of Institutional Economics in recognition of their outstanding service, are Randall Holcombe (Florida State University, USA), Sinclair Davidson (RMIT University, Australia) and…

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2025 Ostrom Prize winners

The joint winners of the 2025 Elinor Ostrom Prize are Erwin Dekker and Blaž Remic for their outstanding article “Hayek’s Extended Mind: On the (Im)possibility of Austrian Behavioral Economics” JOIE 20(e19) and Paul Lewis and Paul Dragos Aligica for their…

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2025 Ostrom Prize shortlist

Six articles have made the shortlist for the 2025 Elinor Ostrom Prize, which will be announced at the WINIR Conference on Institutions, Entrepreneurship & Shared Prosperity in Prague, Czechia (10-12 September 2025). The award will be announced at WINIR 2025…

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2024 Reviewers of the Year announced

The winners of the Reviewer of the Year Prize for 2024, awarded by the editors of the Journal of Institutional Economics in recognition of their outstanding service, are Christopher Coyne (George Mason University, USA), Daniil Frolov (Volgograd State Technical University, Russia) and Fiona Nunan (University…

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2024 Ostrom Prize winner

The winner of the 2024 Elinor Ostrom Prize is Jon Murphy (Western Carolina University, USA) for his outstanding article that uses a cascading network failure model to show how expert failures can cascade not only within fields, but beyond them…

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2024 Ostrom Prize shortlist

Four articles have made the shortlist for the 2024 Elinor Ostrom Prize, which will be announced at the WINIR Conference on Institutional Resilience & Recovery in Pittsburgh, USA (19-21 September 2024). The award will be announced at WINIR 2024 in…

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Council election results

With a turnout of 32.87%, the WINIR Council election results are in: we are pleased to announce that Massiliano Vatiero, Paolo Silvestri, Nadia von Jabobi, and Daniel Cole will be joining Richard Langlois, David Gindis, Francesca Gagliardi, and Lyndal Keeton…

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Council elections

We are pleased to report that the WINIR Council election has generated a lot of interest: 12 nominations from candidates spanning 4 continents were received by the due date of 18 January 2024. The ballot will open on 1 February…

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Reviewers of the Year announced

The winners of the Reviewer of the Year Prize for 2023, awarded by the editors of the Journal of Institutional Economics in recognition of their outstanding service, are Ilia Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Veeshan Rayamajhee (North Dakota State University,…

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2023 Ostrom Prize winners

The winners of the 2023 Elinor Ostrom Prize are Adam Crepelle (Loyola University Chicago, USA), Tate Fegley (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Ilia Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh, USA) & Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh, USA) for their outstanding article on…

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2023 Ostrom Prize shortlist

Five articles have made the shortlist for the 2023 Elinor Ostrom Prize, which will be announced at the WINIR Conference on Institutional Innovation & Evolution in Catania, Italy (20-23 September 2023. The award will be announced at WINIR 2023 in…

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Publicity Officer vacancy

The WINIR Council is seeking to fill the position of Publicity Officer during the next election in early 2024. The remit of the Publicity Officer revolves primarily around ensuring the presence and visibility of WINIR on relevant social media platforms,…

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Council elections in 2024

All Council positions — President, Secretary, Treasurer, Publicity Officer, and four ordinary Council positions — will be up for renewal in early 2024. Council members are expected to take active role in steering the network, organizing events, seeking out new…

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WINIR Young Scholars

We are pleased to announce the launch of WINIR Young Scholars (WYS), which aims to identify and promote the next generation of interdisciplinary institutional scholars from diverse geographies, sociocultural contexts, and disciplines. WYS will organize events in which young institutional…

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2022 Ostrom Prize winners

The winners of the 2022 Elinor Ostrom Prize, which was announced at the WINIR Conference on Polycentric Governance (online) in September 2022, are Peter Grajzl (Washington and Lee University, USA) and Peter Murrell (University of Maryland, USA) for their impressive 2-part…

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