The Pontus Roos Memorial Foundation, represented by the committee members Helen Roos and Tommy Andersson, have announce the winner of this year’s stipend.
Pontus Roos was a creative and resourceful person, firmly convinced that practical problems in the industrial and service sector could benefit from advanced economic analysis. The aim of the Foundation is to annually award a stipend to a PhD student or a young researcher in economics at Lund University.
This year’s stipend is awarded to Juliane Koch with the motivation:
"Juliane Koch’s research project aims to investigate how climate-induced water scarcity affects social norms and cooperative behavior in rural desert communities, focusing on La Guajira, Colombia. Using a lab-in-the-field experiment with a common-pool resource game, she will simulate water-sharing dilemmas under drought conditions and compare communities with and without access to emergency water infrastructure to assess how institutional buffers influence norm adaptation, reciprocity, and cooperation."
