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WU OeNB Research Talent Award

Objective of this initiative

The objective of the WU OeNB Research Talent Award is to recognize and reward students at academic secondary schools (AHS) and colleges for higher vocational education (BHS) for very successful theses on a monetary or financial economics topic with a cash prize.

Which topics are awarded?

Prizes are awarded for outstanding work on a monetary or financial topic. This includes, for example, work on one of the following topics:

  • Personal financial management, personal handling of money, questions of money and capital investment

  • Price stability and monetary policy, questions on inflation and its measurement, monetary policy instruments, central banks and their monetary policy measures

  • Austria as a financial center

  • Stability of a financial market, financial crises and their root causes

  • Means of payment and payment transactions

  • Financing of private and public investments on the financial market (forms of financing and financing decisions)

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