The Award Committee for the annual Prof. Dr Marijan Hanžeković Prize for 2005, comprising Predrag Bejaković (Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb), Katarina Ott (Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb), Ante Žigman (Ministry of Finance, Zagreb), Vedran Šošić (Croatian National Bank, Zagreb) and Tine Stanovnik (Faculty of Economics, Ljubljana) has made the following decisions:

• The first prize in the regular category, a diploma, a medal and 15,000 kuna is awarded to Marijana Bađun for the work The Quality of Governance and Economic Growth in Croatia.
• The first prize in the student category, a diploma and 5,000 kuna were obtained by Marko Primorac and Zvonimir Troskot for the work Measuring the Efficacy and Productivity of Croatian Banks with the Malmquist Index of Change in Total Factor Productivity.

The prize-winning papers are published in the journal Financial Theory and Practice, No. 4/2005, and the prizes were presented to the winners on December 9, 2005.