Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Rising Star Paper Prize
This award, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is for best paper by a graduate student presented in a Rising Star sessions and is presented at the annual International Industrial Organization Conference.
2025 Recipient
Marguerite Obolensky, Columbia University
“Protect or Prepare? Crop Insurance and Adaptation in a Changing Climate”
Marguerite Obolensky's paper develops and estimates an ambitious structural model of land use and government sponsored crop insurance in the US. The paper shows that the current insurance design does not discourage production in areas susceptible to climate risk and renders agricultural production inefficiently sensitive to future climate risks. The paper proposes a targeted subsidy plan that reduces the climate risk exposure of agricultural production at lower insurance costs. The committee of Alan Sorensen, Emek Basker, and Matt Weinberg cited both the quality of the modeling and the importance of the findings in commending this paper.
Past Recipients
2024
Anran Li (Northwestern University), for "Commitment, Competition, and Preventive Care Provision"
2023
Pierre Bodéré (New York University), for “Dynamic Spatial Competition in Early Education: an Equilibrium Analysis of the Preschool Market in Pennsylvania”
2022
Kwok Hao Lee (Princeton University) and Leon Musolff (Princeton University), for “Entry into Two-Sided Markets Shaped by Platform-Guided Search”
2021
Joao Vitor Granja de Almeida (University of Pennsylvania), for “Regulation and Service Provision in Dynamic Oligopoly: Evidence from Mobile Telecommunications”
2020
Claudia Allende (Columbia University), for “Competition Under Social Interactions and the Design of Education Policies
2019
Cailin Slattery (University of Virginia), for “Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the U.S.”
2018
Mons Chan, (University of Minnesota), for “How Substitutable are Labor and Intermediates?”
2017
Christoph Walsh (Boston University), for “Liberalizing the Airwaves in Ghana: A Dynamic Structural Model of Radio Station Competition”
2016
Elena Prager (University of Pennsylvania), for “Tiered Hospital Networks, Health Care Demand, and Prices”
2015
Andrew Butters (Northwestern University), for “Demand Volatility, Adjustment Costs, Temporal Aggregation, and Productivity”
2014
Yair Taylor (Duke University), for “Patent Breadth versus Length: An Examination of the Pharmaceutical Industry”
2013
Garrett Johnson (University of Rochester), for “The Impact of Privacy Policy on the Auction Market for Online Display Advertising”
2012
The first Best Rising Star Paper prize was awarded to Lai Jiang (New York University), for “The Welfare Effects of Bill Shock Regulation in Mobile Telecommunication Markets”