Quantitative Economics and Theoretical Economics Best Paper Awards

The Econometric Society adopted a "Best Paper Prize" in 2015 for its two journals Quantitative Economics and Theoretical Economics. These awards highlight the best paper published in each of the journals in the areas of quantitative economics and economic theory. Prior to 2019, the journals' Editors and Co-Editors selected a list of nominees, from which the Associate Editors elected the winning paper.

In 2019, the process was enhanced, awarding the prize by an external committee appointed by the President of the Society, as described in Section 8.5 of the Society’s Rules and Procedures, alternating annually between QE and TE. The award is made to a single paper. The award will be presented to a paper published in the journal during the past two years defined as any paper published in any of the two volumes in the two calendar years immediately preceding the year in which the award is made. 

The following papers have been awarded the Best Paper Prize:

2022

Doruk Cetemen, Ilwoo Hwang, and Ayça Kaya, "Uncertainty-Driven Cooperation", Theoretical Economics, Volume 15, Number 3 (2020), 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 (November 2019).

2020

Simone Galperti,  A Theory of Personal Budgeting, Theoretical Economics, 14, 173--210 (2019).

2019 

Jaromír Kovářík, Friederike Mengel, and José Gabriel Romero, "Learning in Network Games," Quantitative Economics, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2018, 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

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