Best Paper Awards
Quantitative Economics and Theoretical Economics Best Paper Awards
First awarded in 2015, the QE Best Paper Prize and the TE Best Paper Prize are given in alternating years for the best paper published in the corresponding journal in the previous two years.
Papers co-authored by current Officers of the Society and Editors or Co-Editors of the relevant journal are not eligible for the prize. Prize committees appointed by the President of the Econometric Society choose the recipient with strict conflict-of-interest rules detailed in the Society's Rules and Procedures.
Prior to 2019, the journals' Editors and Co-Editors selected a list of nominees, from which the Associate Editors elected the winning paper.
The following papers have been awarded the Best Paper Prize:
2024
Laura Doval, "Dynamically stable matching", Theoretical Economics, Volume 17, Number 2, 687–724.
Selection Committee: Giuseppe Moscarini (Chair), Hanming Fang, Yingni Guo, Bart Lipman, Thomas Mariotti, and Leeat Yariv
2023
Pooyan Amir-Ahmadi and Thorsten Drautzburg , “Identification and Inference with Ranking Restrictions", Quantitative Economics, Volume 12, Issue 1, 1–39.
Selection Committee: Elie Tamer (Chair), Kate Ho, Francesca Molinari, José-Victor Rios-Rull, Jean Marc Robin, and Gianluca Violante
2022
Doruk Cetemen, Ilwoo Hwang, and Ayça Kaya, "Uncertainty-Driven Cooperation", Theoretical Economics, Volume 15, Issue 3, 1023–1058.
Selection Committee: Bart Lipman (Chair), Giuseppe Moscarini, Eddie Dekel, Debraj Ray and Leeat Yariv
2021
Naoki Aizawa, "Labor market sorting and health insurance system design", Quantitative Economics, Volume 10, Issue 4, 1401–1451.
Selection Committee: José Víctor Ríos Rull (Chair), Francesca Molinari and Jean-Marc Robin
2020
Simone Galperti, "A Theory of Personal Budgeting", Theoretical Economics, Volume 14, Issue 1, 173--210.
Selection Committee: Debraj Ray (Chair), Eddie Dekel and Glenn Ellison
2019
Jaromír Kovářík, Friederike Mengel, and José Gabriel Romero, "Learning in Network Games," Quantitative Economics, Volume 9, Issue 1, 85-139.
Selection Committee: Elie Tamer (Chair), Nikhil Agarwal, and Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez
2018
No paper chosen in 2018 during the award transition process.
2017
Selection Committee: Elie Tamer (Chair), Nikhil Agarwal, and Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez
2018
No paper chosen in 2018 during the award transition process.
2017
William Diamond and Nikhil Agarwal, “Latent indices in assortative matching models,” Quantitative Economics, Volume 8, Issue 3, 685–728.
Péter Eső and Balázs Szentes, “Dynamic contracting: An irrelevance theorem,” Theoretical Economics, Volume 12, Issue 1, 109-139.
2016
Brendan Kline and Elie Tamer, "Bayesian inference in a class of partially identified models,” Quantitative Economics, Volume 7, Issue 2, 329-366.
Alexander Wolitzky, "Mechanism design with maxmin agents: theory and an application to bilateral trade,” Theoretical Economics, Volume 11, Issue 3, 971-1004.
2015
Eric Weese, "Political Mergers as Coalition Formation: An Analysis of the Heisei Municipal Amalgamations", Quantitative Economics, Volume 6, Issue 2, 257–307.
Dilip Abreu, David G. Pearce, and Ennio Stacchetti, "One-sided Uncertainty and Delay in Reputational Bargaining", Theoretical Economics, Volume 10, Issue 3, 719–773.
