Starting from 2022, the Finance Section of INFORMS will sponsor the aforementioned award every year. Papers will be evaluated based on their contribution to financial engineering in terms of theory, modeling, methodology, computation, and empirics.
The qualified papers consist of (a) all papers published by the Financial Engineering Department of the Journal Operations Research and (b) related papers from other journal departments, including special issues.
To be considered for the award, papers must have been published in the prior three years and not already have won this Best Paper Award. For example, for the 2022 award, only papers published 2019-2021 would qualify. The journal publication date is used for this determination rather than the Article-in-Advance publication date. A paper that previously won this award is not eligible for future awards.
Award winners are given a $500 amount distributed equally among co-authors of the paper. The INFORMS Finance Section provides funding for this award. The award will be given during the annual business meeting of the Finance Section of INFORMS.
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Steven Kou
Professor
Boston University
Boston MA
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