2015 awards and honors.

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Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero, and Francesco Giavazzi won the Addington Prize for Measurement for their paper on "The Output Effect of Fiscal Consolidations," which is forthcoming in the Journal of International Economics.

Lee J. Alston was named President of the Economic History Association.

Ernst R. Berndt was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Basel.

Francesco Bianchi was awarded the Wim Duisenberg Research Fellowship by the European Central Bank.

David E. Bloom was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Eric Budish received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He also received the 2015 Utah Winter Finance Conference Best Paper Award for "The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response," with Peter Cramton and John Shim.

Gary Chamberlain was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.

Wesley Cohen's paper "Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R&D," with Dan Levinthal, published in 1989, was named one of the 13 most important papers published in The Economic Journal's 125-year history.

Janet Currie was elected President of the Eastern Economic Association.

Angus S. Deaton was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Manasi Deshpande received the 2015 APPAM Best Dissertation Award, the 2015 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award, and the 2016 NASI John Heinz Dissertation Award.

Susan Dynarski was named one of the Chronicle of Higher Education's top 10 influences. She also received the NASPAA's Public Service Matters Spotlight Award, and a special tribute from Michigan Governor Rick Snyder.

Price Fishback was awarded the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History and the Arthur Cole Prize for Best Article in the Journal of Economic History for his paper with Valentina Kachanovskaya on "The Multiplier for Federal Spending in the States in the 1930s."

Kristin Forbes was awarded a Bicentennial Medal from Williams College, which recognizes "outstanding achievement in any field of endeavor."

Don Fullerton was named a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE), which recognizes "outstanding contributions to the advancement of the profession of environmental and resource economics."

Martin Gaynor was elected to the National Academy of Social...