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 Coeditors 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 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 for Theoretical Economics.

2020

Simone Galperti, A theory of personal budgeting, Theoretical Economics, 14, 173–210 (2019).

2017

Péter Eső and Balázs Szentes, Dynamic contracting: an irrelevance theorem, Theoretical Economics, 12, 109–139.

2016

Alexander Wolitzky, Mechanism design with maxmin agents: theory and an application to bilateral trade, Theoretical Economics, 11, 971–1004.

2015

Dilip Abreu, David G. Pearce, and Ennio Stacchetti, One-sided uncertainty and delay in reputational bargaining, Theoretical Economics, 10, 719–773