Call for Submissions
2021 INFORMS Finance: Practitioner Best Paper Award Competition
The Finance Section of INFORMS invites submissions for its inaugural 2021 INFORMS Finance Practitioner Best Paper Award Competition. The award is established to recognize excellent research done by a practitioner, with a strong potential for impact on finance industry practices. This means a novel implementation of a financial product, the development of a computationally efficient method that speeds up operations of financial services significantly, data driven solution techniques which addresses the industry needs, etc... The topic of the paper should be aligned with the research interests of the INFORMS Finance Section. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, portfolio selection, machine learning in finance, networks and systemic risk, financial technology (e.g. Blockchain and cryptocurrency applications), market liquidity and frictions, financial econometrics, algorithmic trading and market microstructure, commodities markets, credit risk and fixed income modeling.
All research methodologies, both theoretical and empirical are welcome.
The award winners will receive a monetary award and be presented with a certificate at the Finance Business Meeting, which will take place during the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California, Oct. 24-27, 2021. The following cash prizes will be offered to award winners:
First Prize: $500
Honorable Mention: $250
Each submission will be judged by a panel of domain experts, based on the novelty and innovativeness of the paper's contribution and its potential impact on the theory and practice of finance, financial engineering, or financial technology. The 2 finalists will be invited to present in a session at the 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Eligibility Criteria:
- The practitioner's entrant must be a member of the Finance Section on the date of submission.
- The contestant may submit no more than one paper to the competition.
- At least one author must come from industry.
To apply, please email a pdf copy of your paper to Wendy Swenson-Roth at wroth@gsu.edu.
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2021
Any questions can be directed to Zachary Feinstein at zfeinste@stevens.edu.
For more information: https://connect.informs.org/finance/awards/practitioner-best-paper-award
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Wendy Swenson Roth
Section on Finance Vice Chair
Assistant Professor
Georgia State University
Atlanta GA
wroth@gsu.edu------------------------------