INFORMS Market Design Impact Award: call for nominations

 Here's the call for nominations for a new prize to recognize practical market design.

 Call for Submissions: Market Design Impact Award

The INFORMS Auctions and Market Design (AMD) is happy to announce the Market Design Impact Award. The prize is awarded annually and is intended to recognize major contributions in market design. It may be awarded to one individual or a small team when the research is joint. The award may be given for original research from the last 15 years that has made a lasting impact (directly or indirectly) on the field and/or the practice of market design.

Nomination Procedure

Anyone in the market design community may nominate a candidate. The committee is seeking nominations, which include a nomination letter and two letters of recommendation, highlighting the nominee's accomplishments with emphasis on the criteria for the award. Please send nominations to amdimpactaward@gmail.com by July 30 with the subject "Market Design Submission"

A nomination letter of no more than 1000 words describing the content of the contributions.
Bibliographic data (and links or the papers) as needed.
One-two sentences that describe the contribution.
At least two (and most three)  endorsement letters that describe in at most 500 words the lasting contribution, significance, and impact of the paper(s) and work. The letters should specify the relationship of the endorser to the nominees. The nominator should solicit these letters.
The Award Committee welcomes questions from anyone considering or intending to submit a nomination. The committee may be contacted by email at amdimpactaward@gmail.com.

Committee 2025

Jose Correa, University of Chile

Alvin Roth, Stanford University

David Shmoys, Cornell University

The winner(s) will be recognized at the AMD business meeting of the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Information on this prize can also be found at the AMD webpage.