Leontief Memorial Prize 2021

Dear Valued IIOA Member,

We are delighted to announce that the Call for Papers for the 2021 Leontief Memorial Prize is now open!

The Leontief Memorial Prize is an award for the best paper presented at an International Input-Output Conference by author(s) all under 40 years of age. The Prize was first awarded in the year 2000, and the most recent winner was Matteo Vincenzo Rocco at the 2019 conference in Glasgow, UK.

There will be a 2021 competition despite this being a year with no International Input-Output Conference.

Requirements:

* Please submit a completed manuscript on a topic in the field of Input-Output Analysis before November 12th 2021.

* Papers must be submitted via the online submission system COPASS: https://copass.iioa.org/articlenew-13.html

* Manuscripts should follow this structure: title, abstract, keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, acknowledgments, references, appendices (as appropriate) and uploaded as a PDF file.

* All (co-)authors of the paper submitted for the competition must have been under 40 years old on 1st January 2021.

The Prize winner will be determined by a jury consisting of:

* the Chair of the Jury

* the President of the International Input-Output Association

* the Vice-Presidents of the International Input-Output Association

* one of the Editors of Economics Systems Research - the Journal of the Association

The winner of the Prize will be awarded a certificate and prize money of US$1,000.

The winning paper will be ...

1.) ... automatically considered for publication in Economics Systems Research.

2.) ... presented in an IIOA webinar in early 2022.

3.) ... announced on December 17th 2021.

Dr Anne Owen

Chair of Jury for the 2021 Leontief Memorial Prize