As one of Professor Paul Frijters' PhD students I was very proud when he received the Top Young Economist Award from his peers. I have witnessed the contribution Paul has made to Economics Research at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He has been a magnet, attracting a team of researchers, students and prestigious visitors to our School of Economics & Finance. Our School has achieved much. When Paul first joined QUT three years ago, the profile of Economics Research at QUT was very low on the horizon. Today we are proud of our achievements and the standard of our research team continues to rise towards a zenith that has been driven by Paul's vision and commitment to QUT. In the image of himself, Paul has attracted research professors and their students and together we are proud to see QUT ranked among the better Economics Schools in Australia. When the Australian Economic Society recognised Professor Frijters as the Best Young Australian Economist, they were just formalising what we his students already knew, Paul is not only the best of Economists, he is the glue that holds together much of the Economics Research at QUT. Others agree:
"Happy" economist named Australia's best"
"Professor Paul Frijters of QUT's School of Economics and Finance was named the Best Australian Economist under 40 by the Australian Economic Society earlier this week. ....The prestigious award is handed out once every two years, and Professor Frijters is the second recipient. He was judged the winner after details about his career had been seen by a wide range of economists throughout the country."
http://www.bus.qut.edu.au/news/news-event.jsp?news-event-id=30141
"Paul's award is richly deserved. He works on a vast array of topics, running the gamut from labour economics to development economics to econometrics. Paul works with amazing speed (he told me yesterday that he typically aims to write his first paper drafts in a single sitting), and has a CV that's the envy of just about every economist in the country. "
Andrew Leigh, Professor, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences
Australian National University
"A great choice."
Joshua Gans
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