To: Members of the American Economic Association
From: Peter L. Rousseau, Secretary-Treasurer
Subject:  American Economic Association Announces Award Recipients for 2023

Congratulations to the 2023 John Bates Clark Medalist Gabriel Zucman. Awarded annually to an economist under the age of 40, the John Bates Clark Medal recognizes outstanding research accomplishments in economics. Please join the AEA Electoral College, consisting of the Association's Honors and Awards Committee and voting members of the Executive Committee, in congratulating Gabriel Zucman of the University of California, Berkeley. To find out more or to see a list of Clark Medal recipients, go to https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/bates-clark.

The 2023 AEA Distinguished Fellows are Guillermo Calvo, Drew Fudenberg, Olivia Mitchell, and Maurice Obstfeld. The Distinguished Fellow award recognizes the lifetime research contributions of four distinguished economists each year. A list of current and past Distinguished Fellows is available at https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/distinguished-fellows.

The Foreign Honorary Members for 2023 are Manuel Arellano of CEMFI, Mathias Dewatripont of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Eduardo Engel of the University of Chile, Sergei Guriev of Sciences Po, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya of Paris School of Economics. These international honorees of distinction are elected by the American Economic Association's Executive Committee upon recommendation from the Honors and Awards Committee. A list of current Foreign Honorary Members is available at https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/foreign-honorary-members.

The annual American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Awards highlight the best paper published in each of the American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics over the last three years. Nominations are provided by AEA members, and winners are selected by the journals' Boards of Editors. Complimentary full-text articles are available at https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/aej-best-papers.

AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Evolution of Work in the United States," by Enghin Atalay, Phai Phongthiengtham, Sebastian Sotelo, and Daniel Tannenbaum 12(2), (pp. 1-34) April 2020

AEJ: Economic Policy: "Technology, Taxation, and Corruption: Evidence from the Introduction of Electronic Tax Filing," by Oyebola Okunogbe and Victor Pouliquen 14(1), (pp. 341-72) February 2022 

AEJ: Macroeconomics: "The Rise of the Machines: Automation, Horizontal Innovation, and Income Inequality," by David Hémous and Morten Olsen 14(1), (pp. 179-223) January 2022

AEJ: Microeconomics: "Common Ownership in America: 1980–2017," by Matthew Backus, Christopher Conlon, and Michael Sinkinson 13(3), (pp. 273-308) August 2021