Accepting Submissions for HEEP Student Paper Prize Academic Year 2019-2020

The Harvard Environmental Economics Program is accepting submissions for three student paper prizes addressing topics in environmental, energy, and natural-resource economics: The Enel Endowment for Best Undergraduate Paper or Senior Thesis ($1,000), the Mossavar-Rahmani Center Prize for Best Masters Student Paper ($1,500), and the Ana Aguado Prize* for the Best Paper by a Doctoral Student ($2,000). Please see below or the attached flier for details. 

RULES FOR COMPETITION:

• Submitted papers and theses must have been completed during the 2019-2020 academic year.
• Co-authored papers are acceptable, as long as all authors are students, whether at Harvard or elsewhere.
• At least one author must be a student enrolled in a degree program at Harvard.
• Papers co-authored with non-students (faculty members, consultants, outside researchers, etc.) are not allowed.
• Competition for the masters and doctoral student prizes are open to students enrolled in a degree program in any of Harvard's schools.
• Individual students may appear as an author for only one submitted paper.
• It is assumed that submitted papers will have been prepared for other purposes (classes, publication, job market, etc.). It is not requrired nor expected that students prepare papers specifically for the prize competition.

IMPORTANT DATES AND GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:

• The deadline for receipt of submissions is Thursday, May 7th, at 12:00 noon. In the interest of fairness, there will be no exceptions with regard to the deadline.
• Please submit paper and C.V. in electronic form to Casey Billings, Program Coordinator for the Harvard Environmental Economics Program: Casey_Billings@hks.harvard.edu
• Winners will be announced by Thursday, May 21, 2020.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Submitted papers will be reviewd - and winners chosen - by a specially appointed faculty committee.
• If a submitted paper is co-authored by two or more students in the same prize category, then each of these students will be acknowledged as a prize winner.
• The monetary award will be presented to only one student -- the student submitting the paper by email -- regardless of co-authorship (if any). The recipient of the monetary award is ree to distribute it as he or she wishes. 

*Before passing away in October 2016, Ana aguado, for whom the doctoral prize is named, was a leader in European energy policy and business communities for twenty years. She was Secretary General of the European Distribution System Operators' Association for Smart Grids from 2014 to 2016. Before holding that post, Ms. Aguado was Chief Executive Officer of Friends of the Supergrid, dedicated to building an integrated power grid in Europe.