Congratulations to the following recipients of prizes presented at NZAE Conference 2018. More detail on each prize is available at https://nzae.org.nz/prizes/
| David Teece Prize in Industrial Organisation and Firm Behaviour | Richard Meade |
| New Zealand Economic Policy Prize | Jed Armstrong, Hayden Skilling & Fang Yao |
| NZIER Poster prize – open | Hanna Habibi |
| NZIER Poster prize – student | Hanna Habibi |
| People’s choice poster | Samuel Verevis |
| Jan Whitwell Doctoral | Yaxiong (Sherry) Li |
| Jan Whitwell Bachelors / Masters | Ben Davies |
| Seamus Hogan Research Prize | Sally Owen |
| Statistics NZ prize | Isabelle Bouchard, Lydia Cheung & Gail Pacheco |