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Economist Pinelopi “Penny” Koujianou Goldberg receives the A.SK Social Science Award 2025. With this award, the WZB Berlin Social Science Center honors her research on global trade linkages and their impact on global inequality. With prize money of €75,000, the A.SK Award is one of the most highly endowed awards in the social sciences.
In addition to Penny Goldberg, a younger social scientist will also be honored with the second annual A.SK Bright Mind Award. Vicente Valentim will receive the €20,000 prize for his work on how social norms influence behavior.
Economist Penny Goldberg is the William Nordhaus Professor of Economics and Global Affairs at Yale University and teaches at the Jackson School of Global Affairs there. Her research covers the fields of international trade, development economics, and industrial economics. Goldberg's research findings are more relevant than ever, as her latest work deals with the trend toward protectionism. She demonstrated that the trade war between the US and China has created net export opportunities for many “bystander” countries, rather than simply shifting trade between the target locations. In another paper, she analyzed how the recent shift toward protectionism in the US is affecting income distribution. Goldberg was able to show that workers in the export-oriented sector in strongly Republican districts were most affected by retaliatory tariffs. Goldberg's current work also focuses on the role of intellectual property rights and women's labor market participation in economic growth in developing countries.
Penny Goldberg attended the German Gymnasium in Athens and completed her studies in Freiburg im Breisgau. Goldberg received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1992. She has held various leadership positions, including president of the Econometric Society, vice president of the American Economic Association, and editor of the American Economic Review. From 2018 to 2020, Penny Goldberg was chief economist at the World Bank.
Vicente Valentim is an assistant professor of political science at IE University in Madrid. He received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute in 2021 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, before joining IE University. His research explores what citizens consider acceptable in a democracy and the role of social norms in the rise of anti-democratic and extremist acts and expressions. He is the author of the book “The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand,” published by Oxford University Press in 2024. Vicente Valentim regularly publishes in renowned political science journals.
The A.SK Social Science Award, endowed by Chinese entrepreneurs Angela and Shu Kai Chan, has been presented by the WZB every two years since 2007. It honors researchers in the social sciences who have made an important contribution to the analysis of political and economic reforms. Previous winners include Sir Anthony Atkinson, Martha Nussbaum, Transparency International, Paul Collier, Esther Duflo, John Ruggie, Raj Chetty, James C. Scott, and Daron Acemoğlu.
This year's award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, at the WZB. The laudatory speech will be given by former German Federal Minister of Finance Jörg Kukies.
Prof. Penny Goldberg, Ph.D.
Copyright: PIIE Peterson Institute for International Economics
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