The procedure is as follows
The departments of economics at the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, Aalborg University, the University of Southern Denmark and Copenhagen Business School will each nominate up to three of the best bachelor papers written within the academic year in question for the award.
The university/business school must send the nominated papers to Danmarks Nationalbank by 15 August. A committee at Danmarks Nationalbank will assess the papers and select a winner.
The Award for Best Bachelor Paper and the kr. 10,000 will be presented at Danmarks Nationalbank’s Careers Evening in October. On this occasion, the award winner will also present his or her paper. All nominees will be invited to attend Careers Evening.
Nominatable topics
Bachelor papers on the following topics can be nominated:
- Monetary and exchange rate policies and stabilisation policies
- Macroeconomics, monetary economics and credit
- Financial stability and macroprudential policies
- Financial institutions and financial markets
The winners of Danmarks Nationalbank’s Bachelor Award 2023
Thomas Kjelgaard Jensen, the University of Copenhagen, received the Bachelor Award for his paper 'Negative Interest Rates, Behavioral Effects and Housing Price Dynamics'.
Danmarks Nationalbank’s Bachelor Award 2023 was presented by Governor Christian Kettel Thomsen.
Previous winners of the Bachelor Award
2022:
Amalie Busk-Jepsen og Christoffer Skafte-Larsen, the University of Copenhagen, for their paper ’Temperaturens effekt på økonomisk vækst – Estimation af en global ikke-lineær sammenhæng mellem årlig gennemsnitstemperatur og BNP-vækst’.
2021:
Magnus Eldrup, the University of Copenhagen, for his paper ‘Optimal Income Taxation and How Cardinal Utility Can Reassert it as a Scientific Discipline’.
2020:
Mads Rude Wind and Rune Thyge Johansen, the University of Copenhagen, for their paper ‘Negative Rates and a Bank Lending Channel in Reverse? Theory and Evidence from Denmark’.
2019:
Mathilde Ellegaard Bechmann and Mads Berner Bruun, the University of Copenhagen, for their paper ‘Are stars falling? How aging population causes a decline in the equilibrium real interest rate, r*: A case study of Denmark’.
2018:
Emil Bach Mikkelsen, Aarhus University, for his paper ‘Systemic Risk in the US Stock Market: Copula-Based Estimation of CoVar and CoES’.
2017:
Kasper Emil Skyum Madsen and Mikkel Bess, the University of Copenhagen, for their paper ‘Effekterne af et kontantløst samfund: Et studie af rentens nedre nulgrænse’.
2016:
Frederik Bjørn Christensen and Frederik Læssøe Nielsen, Aarhus University, for their paper ‘The Role of the Public Sector in Intergenerational Welfare Contracts’.