Elinor Ostrom Prize – Winner

Robbert Maseland, “Is Colonialism History? The Declining Impact of Colonial Legacies on African Institutional and Economic Development”, JOIE 14(2): 258-287. 

Colin Harris, “Institutional Solutions to Free-Riding in Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Case Study of Online Pirate Communities”, JOIE 14(5): 901-924. 

The award was made at the Sixth WINIR Conference in Lund, Sweden.

2019 Ostrom Prize Committee: Elodie Bertrand, Federica Carugati, Christopher Coyne, David Dequech and Thráinn Eggertsson.

Elinor Ostrom Prize – Announcement of 2019 Shortlist

The following four papers have been shortlisted for the 2019 Elinor Ostrom Prize. This shortlist was selected by the Prize Jury from papers published in the Journal of Institutional Economics in 2018.

Journal of Institutional Economics, Issue 14(2), April 2018 Robbert Maseland, “Is colonialism history? The declining impact of colonial legacies on African institutional and economic development” Dácil Juif and Ewout Frankema, “From coercion to compensation: Institutional responses to labour scarcity in the Central African Copperbelt”

Journal of Institutional Economics, Issue 14(5), October 2018 Colin Harris, “Institutional solutions to free-riding in peer-to-peer networks: a case study of online pirate communities”

Journal of Institutional Economics, Issue 14(6), December 2018 Joel Mokyr, “Bottom-up or top-down? The origins of the Industrial Revolution"