The annual award ceremony of the Prof. dr. Marijan Hanzekovic Foundation was held on Friday December 5, 2014.
In the regular category the 50,000 kn prize, the diploma and medals was won by Miljana Valdec and Jurica Zrnc (Croatian National Bank, Zagreb) for the paper The direction of causality between exports and firm performance: microeconomic evidence from Croatia using the matching approach. The award in the student category wasn’t awarded due to the insufficiant quality of submitted papers.
The members of the award committee for 2014 were Vjekoslav Bratić (Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb); Dubravka Jurlina Alibegović (The Institute of Economics, Zagreb); Evan Kraft (American University, Washington D.C.); Dubravko Mihaljek (Bank for International Settlements, Basel) and Katarina Ott (Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb).
The awarded paper is published in the journal Financial Theory and Practice, No. 1/15.