# Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize

The INFORMS Auctions and Market Design (AMD) Section is happy to announce the Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize, to be awarded annually at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. The prize recognizes the best paper by a junior researcher in the area of Auctions and Market Design, with a particular focus on the use of Operations Research and/or Management Science techniques in the design or analysis of markets. The paper should provide an innovative approach to a realistic market-design problem, and should have potential impact for real-world market design.

Judging criteria will include technical quality and richness of the solution approach, strength of connection to the literature in Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and potential or demonstrated impact on practice.

The first, second, and third prizes are awarded with a $500,$300, and \$100 honorarium, respectively. Winners will present their work in a special session at the Annual Meeting. All finalists and winners will be recognized at the AMD business meeting of the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting.

Eligibility Conditions:

• Entrant must be a current PhD student (enrolled on or after January 1, 2022) or be a recent PhD graduate (with a PhD conferred no earlier than January 1, 2019).
• The submitted paper must present original research conducted primarily by the entrant. If the work includes co-authorship, co-authors must certify that the entrant's contribution was primary (not exceeded by another contributor).
• Research submitted should have been accepted for final publication at a refereed journal or at a reputable refereed conference.
• Entrant must be a member of the AMD Section on the date of submission.
• The paper must not have won a prize in a previous Rothkopf paper competition (first, second, or third place).
• An entrant may submit no more than one paper to the competition in any year.

Submission Requirements:

A complete entry consists of

• A pdf stating the entrant's contact information, the contact information of the entrant's co-authors, the paper title, and appropriate keywords for the submitted paper.
• The paper in a PDF file format, with a length of at most 32 pages including the tables, figures, and references, and strictly compliant with all submission formatting standards of the journal Operations Research or Management Science. There could be appendices beyond the 32-page limit but the judges are not responsible for covering those materials. The file name should be the short title of the paper.
• A pdf file of a letter signed by the entrant (and co-authors, if any) attesting that the entrant and the paper satisfy the eligibility conditions.

Complete entries must be received on or before June 30, 2022, by email submission to the committee chair rothkopfprize@dss.in.tum.de, with subject line “Rothkopf Submission.” It is the entrant's responsibility to allow for appropriate time to enroll as a new member of the AMD section (approximately 5 business days). Any question(s) related to the competition should be sent by email to the committee chair, Martin Bichler, bichler@in.tum.de. The committee chair will work with three judges on award decisions. No judge or chair will serve more than two times in any five-year period.

Prize Finalists 2022

The Auctions and Market Design section of INFORMS is pleased to announce (in alphabetical order) the following three finalists of the Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize for 2022. The awards of First, Second, and Third place (among these three) will be announced at the AMD Business Meeting at the INFORMS Annual Meeting on October 17 at 6.30pm.

• Haihao Lu, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Title: The Best of Many Worlds: Dual Mirror Descent for Online Allocation Problems
Co-authors: Santiago Balseiro (Columbia University), Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research)

• Jacob Mays,  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Title: Asymmetric Risk and Fuel Neutrality in Electricity Capacity Markets
Co-authors: David Morton (Northwestern University), Richard O' Neill (ARPA-E)

• Raghav Singal, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Title: On-demand Transportation: Drivers Wages Versus Platform Profit
Co-authors: Omar Besbes, Vineet Goyal, Garud Iyengar (Columbia University)

Prize-winner presentations will be given in a special session (ME64) at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Indianapolis: October 17, 2022, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM (M - Indiana A).

Judging Committee 2022

• Martin Bichler (Chair), Technical University of Munich