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2026 PRIZE: FLORIAN BRANDL AND MENGLING LI

Admin — 2026-01-05T15:03:28Z

Florian Brandl and Mengling Li receive the thirteenth social choice and welfare prize

A jury composed of Youngsub Chun (President-Elect of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare), Marc Fleurbaey (Past President of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare), Bettina Klaus (President of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare), Souvik Roy (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata) and Piotr Skowron (University of Warsaw) has chosen to award the twelfth Social Choice and Welfare Prize jointly to Florian Brandl (University of Bonn) and Mengling Li (School of Economics & the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University).

The purpose of the Social Choice and Welfare Prize is to honour young scholars of excellent accomplishment in the area of social choice theory and welfare economics. The laureate should be 40 years or less as of January of the year when the International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare is scheduled to take place. During this meeting, the prize winner(s) will give a plenary lecture.

Each recipient will receive an engraved bronze medal from la Monnaie de Paris.

SSCW Prize

Admin — 2025-05-23T20:29:06Z

Information about the Social Choice and Welfare Prize

During the Fifth International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare held June 29 to July 2, 2000 in Alicante, Spain, the Council of the Society decided to inaugurate the Social Choice and Welfare Prize. The Purpose of this prize is to honor young scholar(s) of excellent accomplishment in the area of social choice theory and welfare economics by awarding him/her the Social Choice and Welfare Medal, and asking him/her to deliver an Invited Lecture of 45 minutes at the International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare. The concept of the prize is as follows:

(1) The Prize Medal will be awarded to young scholar(s) of distinguished accomplishment in social choice theory and welfare economics, who should be 40 years or less as of January 1 of the year when the International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, to be called the meeting hereafter, is scheduled to take place.

(2) The Prize Medal will be delivered at the relevant meeting by the President of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, and the receiver(s) will give an Invited Lecture of 45 minutes on the research area which he/she represents.

(3) The Selection Committee should be organized during the previous international meeting, and the selection process should completed at least one year before the relevant meeting so as to allow the prize receiver(s) to prepare his/her invited lecture. The selection committee should consist of 5 members of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare including the President and the President-elect, and it should properly represent the spectrum of issues within the area of social choice theory and welfare economics. The Selection Committee must be chaired by the President-elect, who will become the President when the relevant meeting is held.

(4) The Prize receiver's invited lecture must be submitted for possible publication in Social Choice and Welfare. It is within the discretion of the Editors of Social Choice and Welfare to decide whether or not the lecture should be published.

(5) It is not necessary that the candidates of the prize are members of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare at the time of their nomination. However, the prize receiver is required to be a member of the Society when he/she receives the Prize Medal.

Best Young Scholar Paper Awards

Admin — 2025-05-23T12:11:42Z

Best Young Scholar Paper Awards

For the first time during its 2024 meeting, the Society for Social Choice and Welfare has decided put in the spotline the researchs made by young scholars. The jury, composed by the organisers of the conference, has awarded the three prizes to :

Harshika Dalakoti (Indian Statistical Institute): Optimal dissolution mechanisms

Antoine Germain (UCLouvain and FNRS): Basic income versus fairness: Redistribution with inactive agents

Markus Utke (TU Eindhoven): Anonymous and copy-robust delegations for liquid democracy

Congratulation to them !

2024 PRIZE : SOUVIK ROY AND PIOTR SKOWRON

Admin — 2023-11-25T22:58:56Z

Souvik Roy and Piotr Skowron receive the twelfth social choice and welfare prize

A jury composed of Gabriel Carroll (University of Toronto), Marc Fleurbaey (President of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare), Bettina Klaus (President-Elect of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare), Agnieszka Rusinowska (CNRS, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) and Jim Schummer (Nothwestern University) has chosen to award the twelfth Social Choice and Welfare Prize jointly to Souvik Roy (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata) and Piotr Skowron (University of Warsaw).

Each recipient will receive an engraved bronze medal from la Monnaie de Paris.

Past Laureates

Admin — 2023-01-19T17:14:52Z

Past Laureates :
2024 : SOUVIK ROY and PIOTR SKOWRON
2022 : GABRIEL CARROLL and JAMIE MORGENSTERN
2020 : PIETRO ORTOLEVA and ARIEL PROCACCIA
2018 : GEORGY EGOROV and DEBASIS MISHRA
2016 : FUHITO KOJIMA and PARAG PATHAK
2014 : VINCENT CONITZER and TIM ROUGHGARDEN
2012 : LARS EHLERS and ADAM MEIROWITZ
2010 : FRANZ DIETRICH and CHRISTIAN LIST
2008 : TAYFUN SOMNEZ
2006 : JOHN DUGGAN
2004 : FRANCOIS MANIQUET
2002 : MATTHEW JACKSON

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