Onassis Prizes 2018 Awarding

The five leading academics that were awarded the International Onassis Prizes 2018 are active in fields that impact the daily lives of millions of people. Douglas W. Diamond, who was awarded the Finance Prize as an expert in the management of the collective withdrawal of depositions and liquidity crises, is a distinguished Professor in Finance at Merton H. Miller of Booth School of Business, at the University of Chicago.

The International Trade prize was awarded to Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum for their joint research on the ways technolgy affects international trade. Eaton is a distinguished Professor of Economics at the Department of Economic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, and Kortum, Professor of Economics at James Burrows Moffatt of the Department of Economics at Yale. The Onassis Prizes for Shipping were awarded to the Shipping Economists Mary Brooks and Wayne Talley, who research the dangers terrorism and piracy pose for the shipping industry. The former is Professor Emerita at Rowe School of Business, of Dalhousie University and President of the Shipping Council of National Academies. Talley is a Professor of Shipping Administration and Logistics at the Shipping Institute and Eminent Scholar at Strome College of Business, Old Dominion University.