The prize from the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences will be awarded jointly to Dr Antonia Baumgartner for her doctoral thesis "Wer spricht und mit wem? Und was hält das Publikum davon? Zur Orientierungsfunktion des Journalismus"  and Dr Christian Arciniegas Acosta for her doctoral thesis Three essays on development economics: rural labor markets, trade liberalization and crime"