A Promising Economic Theorist Wins the 2016 JBC Award

Yuliy Sannikov has won the 2016 John Bates Clark award – awarded biennially to the top American economist under the age of 40.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-29/yuliy-sannikov-wins-john-bates-clark-young-economist-award

https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/bates-clark/yuliy-sannikov

https://afinetheorem.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/yuliy-sannikov-and-the-continuous-time-approach-to-dynamic-contracting/

UPDATE:
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-10/get-ready-for-high-frequency-lawyers

Two important papers by Sannikov –

THE ROLE OF INFORMATION IN REPEATED GAMES WITH FREQUENT ACTIONS

https://www.princeton.edu/~sannikov/SannikovSkrzypacz.pdf

A Macroeconomic Model with a Financial Sector

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.104.2.379
Working paper version - https://www.princeton.edu/~sannikov/macro_finance.pdf