The “Masahiko Aoki Award for Economic Paper” is established in honor of Prof. Masahiko Aoki, co-founder of Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance (CIDEG), Tsinghua University and former joint chairperson of the Academic Committee, with a view to excavate and encourage Chinese young scholars to conduct academic research concerning public policy and institutional construction, and promote academic research and concrete progress in China’s public governance area. The award is in the name of Prof. Masahiko Aoki to honor his hopes.

THEME

The focus is on economics areas concerning China’s reform and development, and excellent research papers making academic contribution to comparative institutional analysis are especially desired.

ELIGIBLE CONTRIBUTORS

Young scholars from home and abroad who are under the age of 40 (include 40), including research fellow, doctoral candidate, post-doctoral fellows, etc. at universities or research institutes.

REQUIREMENTS OF PAPERS

1. The focus is on economics areas concerning China’s reform and development, especially the excellent research papers making academic contribution to comparative institutional analysis

2. Doctoral thesis or journal article published in recent two years (From January 1, 2021 to January 1, 2023)

3. Both Chinese and English papers are welcome. The Chinese version shall have a detailed English abstract in it (1000 words, including background, research question, methodology, empirical results and contributions).

COMPETING PROCESS

1. Submission deadline: contributors shall submit papers in full before September 1, 2023.

2. First review: competition committee will organize experts to conduct a preliminary selection, release the result and grant the award nomination (5papers) before October 30, 2023.

3. Final review: review committee will assess and select the shortlisted papers for 1 or 2 winning papers and release the list before November 30, 2023. 

PAPER SUBMISSION

Please submit the application form, abstract and full paper to the official email: cideg@tsinghua.edu.cn before September 1, 2023.

*Application without charge

*Please click Read more below to download the English application form

REVIEWING STANDARS 

1. The quality of the research, logicality of the paper structure and the coherence of the argument;

2. Application of the International advanced theories and methodologies;

3. The originality or practical significance of the findings;

4. Encouragement of the empirical study on China’s reality.

AWARDS

First author (or corresponding author) of 1-2 best paper selected from the “Award Nomination” paper by review committee will be granted “Masahiko Aoki Award for Economic Paper”. The award winner will:

1. Obtain the invitation to attend the CIDEG annual meeting, have face-to-face communication with world-leading economists.

2. Obtain the invitation to attend the CIDEG academic meetings, have opportunity to apply CIDEG research project.

3. Obtain a reward of RMB 50,000

REVIEW COMMITTEE

CHAIRMAN

WU Jinglian 

Senior Researcher of Development Research Center of the State Council, CIDEG Honorary Advisors

REVIEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Barry Naughton

Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego; Member of CIDEG Academic Committee

CAI Hongbin

Dean, School of Business and Economics, Hongkong University

CHE Jiahua

Professor, China Europe International Business School

Hatta Tatsuo

Director, Asia Growth Institute; Former Dean, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies; Member of CIDEG Academic Committee;

Hoshi Takeo

Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Tokyo; Senior Fellow in Japanese Studies, Asia pacific Research Center; Joint Chairperson of CIDEG Academic Committee

Okazaki Tetsuji

Professor, Department of Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan

LIU Shouying

Secretary of the Party Committee and Dean of School of Economics, Renmin University of China

QIAN Yingyi

Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University; Professor of SEM, Tsinghua University; Member of CIDEG Academic Committee

XUE Lan

Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University; Professor of SPPM, Tsinghua University; Dean of Schwarzman Scholars; Joint Chairperson of CIDEG Academic Committee

XU Chenggang

Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science; Visiting Professor, Imperial College London

ZHOU Li'an

Deputy Dean and Professor, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

ORGANIZERS

Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance, Tsinghua University

Editorial office Comparative Studies

CONTACT

TEL：+86 10 62772497   62772593

FAX：+86 10 62772497

EMAIL：cideg@tsinghua.edu.cn

WEB：http://www.cideg.tsinghua.edu.cn

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