Elsevier/IAREP/SABE Best Student Paper Competition 2008

For information on the 2008 joint IAREP/SABE meeting taking place in Rome refer to: http://www.luiss.it/iarep2008/homepage.php

Since at least 1984, IAREP has offered a prize for the best paper by a student submitted for inclusion in the programme of its annual conference. Such a prize has also been offered for the IAREP/SABE joint meetings. This prize is generously sponsored by Elsevier Scientific, the publishers of the Journal of Economic Psychology and the Journal of Socio-Economics. The winner of the Elsevier/IAREP/SABE Best Student Paper Competition for 2008 will receive:

• A year's subscription to the Journal of Economic Psychology
• A year's subscription to the Journal of Socio-Economics
• 1000 Euro

The second and third place winner will receive a year's subscription to both journals. The current rules for the competition are:

• Papers may be in any field of economic psychology/ behavioural economics.
• The first author of the paper must be a student and the paper should be written in English.
• The paper has to be accepted for oral or poster presentation at the conference.
• The paper should be limited to the length allowed for full papers at the conference, and should be submitted in the format requested.
• The panel will judge the papers using the following criteria: (a) interest of subject area; (b) quality of research; and (c) quality of writing.
• Please note that abstracts and papers need to be submitted to the conference organisers as well, following the guidelines announced in the general call for papers.

This competition is judged by a prize committee of senior members of IAREP and SABE consisting of:

• Morris Altman (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
• Shabnam Mousavi (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin & Pennsylvania State University, University Park)
• Guido Ortona (Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)
• Marko Polic (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

The deadline for abstract submission for the conference will be May 30, 2008; the deadline for full paper submission will be July 15th, 2008. This is also the deadline for submitting papers to the student paper competition. To participate in the competition, you need to send your paper according to the above guidelines via email to: Morris Altman (Morris.altman@usask.ca) until July 15th, 2008.