Review of Economic Design - Young Scholar Prize in memory of Nedim Okan

We are proud to announce the establishment of a new prize in the field of economic design.

The prize has been created in memory of Nedim Okan[1], a brilliant young scholar who passed away much too early in 2021, and it is given by the Murat Sertel Center for Advanced Economic Studies at Istanbul Bilgi University to the author of the best paper published in Review of Economic Design (RED). Those eligible to the prize are graduate students or scholars who received a Ph.D. degree at most five calendar years before the year the paper is submitted to RED. The paper may be co-authored.

The prize is biennial and covers the period between 1 January of an odd year and 31 December of the following even year. Papers published by RED during that period are evaluated by a jury of three people, one from each of Murat Sertel Center, Review of Economic Design, Society for Economic Design (SED). The decision is made latest March 31st of the (odd) year that follows the considered period. The laureate is invited to present the paper at a special session of the biennial SED conference that takes place that (odd) year. The prize is delivered during that meeting.

The prize amounts to 5,000 EUR, financed by the Murat Sertel Center. Half of it is in cash while the other half is used to support the expenses of the laureate’s participation at the SED meeting. This latter support is in-kind and cannot be converted into cash, nor can be postponed for another conference. The prize is equally split among all eligible authors of the award-winning paper, in case there are more than one.

We appreciate the generous provision of the prize money by the Murat Sertel Center and Istanbul Bilgi University.

The prize will be awarded for the first time at the 13th Conference on Economic Design, to be held in 2023 at the University of Girona in Spain, and the jury will evaluate papers published by RED between January 2021 and December 2022.

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_{[1] Nedim Okan received his BA in Economics at Sabancı University. As a graduate student at the M.Sc. Program in Economics, Istanbul Bilgi University, he became a member of the research team at the Bilgi Economics Lab of Istanbul, Murat Sertel Center. In his thesis, he experimentally investigated the effects of asymmetric law enforcement on individual behavior in a repeated public good game. In Fall 2019, Nedim became a PhD student at the Berlin School of Economics.  After successfully completing his coursework at the DIW Graduate Center, he joined the WZB for his research phase. Nedim passed away on May 24, 2021.}