2012 awards and honors: a number of NBER researchers received honors, awards, and other forms of professional recognition during 2012. A list of these honors, which excludes those that were bestowed by the researcher's home university, is presented below.

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Viral Acharya received the inaugural Banque de France-Toulouse School of Economics Junior Prize in Monetary Economics and Finance. He received the National Stock Exchange of India Best Paper Award for "Sovereign Debt, Government Myopia and the Financial Sector" (with Raghuram Rajan). "Liquidity Risk of Corporate Bond Returns" (co-authored by Yakov Amihud and Sreedhar Bharath) received Second Prize for the Cromwell Award given by Pan Agora Asset Management. He was also named a Director of the Western Finance Association.

Lee Alston won the Cliometric Society's Award for "Exceptional Service to the Field of Cliometrics."

Andrew Ang and Dimitris Papanikolaou won second prize in the Roger F. Murray Prize Competition.

Jeremy Atack served as President of the Economic History Association. He was also elected a Fellow of the Cliometric Society.

David Autor was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Katherine Baicker received the Impact Award from AcademyHealth for her work on the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment. She also was named to the Board of Directors of Eli Lilly, and began serving as Chair of the NIH's SSPS Study Section.

Richard Baldwin was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.

Marianne Bertrand (and Adair Morse) won the Brattle Group Prize for "Information Disclosure, Cognitive Biases and Payday Borrowing." She also became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Society of Labor Economists, and won that Society's Rosen Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Labor Economics.

Javier Bianchi received the National Prize in Economics in Uruguay, awarded by Universidad de la Republica, for "Efficient Bailouts?"

Alberto Bisin became a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Jeffrey Brown and Scott Weisbenner shared the BlackRock Research Award at the 25th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference in December 2012.

Richard Burkhauser (along with Jeff Larrimore and Kosali Simon) won the 2012 Richard Musgrave Prize for the best paper published in the National Tax Journal for "A Second Opinion on the Economic Health of the American Middle Class and Why it Matters in Gauging the Impact of Government Policy."

Charles Calomiris received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Basel for his achievements in the fields of banking history, banking regulation, and financial fragility.

John Campbell gave the Keynote Address at the Society for Financial Econometrics in Oxford, England; the Morgan Stanley Lecture at the New Economic School in Moscow; the Purvis Lecture at the Canadian Economic Association in Calgary; and the David Kinley Lecture at the University of Illinois.

Scott Carrell and Mark Hoekstra won the IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) Young Labor Economist Award.

Alessandra Casella was awarded a fellowship at the Straus Institute, NYU Law School.

Amitabh Chandra was elected to the National Academies' Institute of Medicine. He also was awarded the American Society of Health Economics medal recognizing the outstanding economist under age 40. He delivered the George Burch Lecture to the Association of University Cardiologists, and became Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics.

Hui Chen won the Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize for "Macroeconomic Conditions and the Puzzles of Credit Spreads and Capital Structure."

Janet Currie is the 2013 Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. She was also named one of 100 "Alumni of Influence" by University College, University of Toronto, and she was elected Vice President of the Society of Labor Economists.

Raj Chetty received the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Philip Cook was elected Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.

Mario Crucini was elected President of the International Economics and Finance Society and was selected to serve on the Editorial Board of the Pacific Economic Review.

Angus Deaton won the BBVA Frontiers in Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance, and Management. He also was awarded an honorary doctorate in economics by the University of Cyprus.

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