As of today, the students of higher education institutions established in the Baltic States are invited to submit their papers for the annual Competition of Student Scientific Research Papers announced by Latvijas Banka by 29 May.
Latvijas Banka organises the competition already for the 21st time. Participation is open to citizens and non-citizens of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia as well as foreigners who at the time of the competition are registered as students of higher education institutions accredited in the Baltic States, enrolled in Bachelor's or Master's degree programmes, as well as to the students of the Baltic States studying abroad.
The submitted papers shall discuss subjects currently relevant for the Baltic and euro area economies (suggestions for topics and a list of the previous years' award-winning papers are available on the website: www.macroeconomics.lv).
The papers shall be submitted to Latvijas Banka by 29 May.
They will be evaluated by a committee of economists set up by Latvijas Banka. The award-winning papers will be published on Latvijas Banka's website www.macroeconomics.lv, and their authors will receive money awards (including EUR 2000 to the Excellence Award-winning paper, EUR 1500 to the first-prize-winning paper, EUR 1250 to the two second-prize-winning papers each and EUR 1000 to the three third-prize-winning papers each; if a paper has several authors, the prize will be equally divided among them).
15 papers were submitted for the Competition of Student Scientific Research Papers organised in the academic year 2021/2022. Their authors were 20 students from 7 higher education institutions in Latvia and abroad (the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Riga Stradiņš University, BA School of Business and Finance, the University of Latvia, Latvia University of Agriculture, the RISEBA University of Applied Sciences, ISM University of Management and Economy (Vilnius)). Evelīna Valtere and Diāna Zariņa, students of the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, won the first prize in the competition for their paper "Greenwashing: when Climate Talk Does not Meet the Climate Walk".
The Regulation for the Competition, the papers of the previous prize-winners and other information are available on the website www.macroeconomics.lv under the section FOR STUDENTS.