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.

2023 Recipient

Pierre Bodéré (New York University), for “Dynamic Spatial Competition in Early Education: an Equilibrium Analysis of the Preschool Market in Pennsylvania”

Past Recipients

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”