Student Paper Award

Canan Ulu, "Uncertainty, Information Acquisition, and Technology Adoption" (with Jim Smith)

This paper received the highest ranking among all of the finalists based on equal weighting and was more polished than its closest competitor, both in terms of the writing and in the completeness of the proofs.  Overall, we found the paper to be of the highest quality, and we felt that it exemplified the type of paper that should get this award.  We noted that the decision was particularly difficult and that all of the excellent papers submitted by the finalists made the competition very close.

Student paper finalists

• Casey Lichtendahl, “Probability Elicitation, Scoring Rules, and Cooperation Among Forecasters” (with Robert L. Winkler)
  
  

• Peter Frazier, “A Knowledge Gradient Policy for Sequential Bayesian Ranking and Selection” (with Savas Dayanik, Warren Powell)
  
  

• Burhaneddin Sandikci, “Estimating the Patient's Price of Privacy in Liver Transplantation” (with Oguzhan Alagoz, Lisa Maillart, Mark Roberts, Andrew Schaefer)
  
  

• Xianchi Dai, “The Value Heuristic in Judgments of Relative Frequency” (with C. Miguel Brendl, Klaus Wertenbroch)
  
  

• Soo-Haeng Cho, “The Optimal Composition of Influenza Vaccines Subject to Random Production Yields”

Committee Members

• Kim Thompson, (co-chair)

• Eva Regnier, (co-chair)

• John Butler,

• Enrico Decidue,

• Steven Shechter, and

• Don Kleinmuntz