TPUG sponsors a Best PhD dissertation award.  To be considered for the award, candidates’ Ph.D. dissertations should be forwarded to the President by September 30.

This award is the result of the efforts of former President Douglas Jones of Ohio State along with generous donations from a wide array of past presidents and recipients of the Distinguished Members Award. If you wish to contribute, TPUG is a 501(3)(c) non-profit, and your donation is tax deductible. 

Past Recipients:

• 2023: Vincent Thorne, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, “Essays in Urban and Development Economics”
• 2022: Tal Roitberg, University of Southern California, “Three Essays on Strategic Commuters with Late Arrival Penalties and Toll Lanes”
• 2021: Nicola Rosaia, Harvard University. “Essays in Industrial Organization”
• 2020: Curtis Dlouhy, University of Oregon.  “Causes and Consequences of the Coal Market Decline”
• 2018: Taylor McKenzie, University of Oregon.  “Railroads, Their Regulation, and Its Effect on Efficiency and Competition”
• 2017: Richard Boampong, University of Florida “Residential Energy Consumers Response to energy Efficiency Rebates, Incentives, and Prices.”
• 2016: Timothy Wang, University of California – Irvine, ““Econometric Models in Transportation.”
• 2015: David P. Brown, University of Florida, “Three Essays on Market Power in Restructured Electricity Markets.”
• 2013: Jonathan Hall, University of Chicago, Pareto Improvements from Lexus Lanes: The effects of pricing a portion of the lanes on congested highways”
• 2012: David G. Ripplinger, North Dakota State University
• 2010: Nongluk Buranabunyut, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.   “Incentive Regulation and Allocative Efficiency: Evidence from the U.S. Telecommunications Industry,”
• 2003: Hugh Turner, University of Maryland.  “”Infrastructure Productivity in the North American Containerport System: A Longitudinal Study (1984-1997)”
• 2002: Erin Mansur, University of California – Berkeley, “Environmental Regulation in Oligopoly Markets”